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Mar 03, 2013 News
New York (New York Daily News) – A plot to take out the residents of a Queens apartment house was thwarted Thursday — but not before the brutal death of a Guyanese man who was bound, gagged, pistol-whipped, shot and burned, police sources said.
The discovery of 43-year-old Azeem Ali’s scorched remains in his burned-out Richmond Hill apartment early Sunday led cops to Stephen Peters, 22, and Jason St. Hill, 17, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday.
Police charged the pair with kidnapping, arson, murder, burglary and robbery on Thursday. The alleged killers live on 95th Avenue, less than a block away from the targeted house on 116th St.
Peters and St. Hill and were hired by a man who wanted to kill the building’s tenants, police sources said.
The lethal grudge-holder, sources said, had been angry with the building’s four tenants since May, when he was accused of molesting one of the residents. Cops are still seeking the man who hired the thugs to “take care of” everyone in the building, sources said.
Ali, whom neighbours described as a hardworking Guyanese immigrant, suffered the vengeance in a horrifying death.
Police sources say the hitmen burst into Ali’s home just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday, trussed and gagged the tradesman and machinist and then pistol-whipped him.
Ali gave his assailants his ATM card and personal identification number, but Peters shot him twice in the head anyway, sources said.
Peters then found a gas can and set the apartment on fire to cover his tracks, sources said.
More than 100 firefighters rushed to a two-alarm blaze that ravaged the apartment building.
Once the fire was extinguished, investigators found Ali in his bed.
His feet had been tied with electrical cord and his shoulders bound with speaker wire, sources said.
He was shot once — execution-style — in the head, police sources said.
No one else was injured in the fire.
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