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Burglar killed by bizman
Latin music store king guns down intruder
By WARREN WOODBERRY Jr. and ALICE McQUILLAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
The wealthy owner of a Latin music store chain shot and killed a fleeing burglar who had broken into his Queens home yesterday with another thief, police said.
Amalio Santos, head of Rincon Musical, told police he fired his licensed gun outside his Briarwood home when one of the intruders turned and pointed a revolver at him.
The burglars apparently thought Santos' home was empty when they broke in about 10a.m. First the pair rang the front door of the Coolidge Ave. home, but it took Santos' wife, Marilyn, a few minutes to answer.
By the time she got to the door, she looked out to see two strangers at the side of the house using a crowbar to break in through a side door, cops said. She woke up her husband, who rushed to the basement, where he confronted the intruders.
Bloodstained snow
Santos, 47, told cops he chased the two burglars from his basement and fired after one of them pointed a gun at him.
Bloodstains covered the snow on Santos' front lawn where the unidentified burglar fell after being shot once in the face. It wasn't clear whether the burglar who was shot was carrying a gun. No weapon was found at the scene.
The second intruder escaped in a champagne-colored Acura, police said.
Authorities questioned Santos for hours yesterday, but did not charge him.
Authorities said he was a retired federal air marshal and that his 9-mm. semiautomatic handgun was legal.
Santos' lawyer, Steven Gordon, said, "He's as emotional as someone would be after killing someone. I just have the utmost confidence that [Queens District Attorney Richard] Brown will do what's right."
Neighbor Lindy Zilkha, 48, complained about burglaries in the area, saying her own home was ransacked a few years ago.
"I never felt safe here," she said. "It has been quiet, but all of a sudden, it started up again."
Santos' Rincon Musical, which bills itself as the "Latin Music Capital of the World," is a wholesale and retail chain with outlets in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan and New Jersey.
The company's sales reached almost $15 million last year, according to Dun & Bradstreet.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/58850p-55116c.html
Latin music store king guns down intruder
By WARREN WOODBERRY Jr. and ALICE McQUILLAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
The wealthy owner of a Latin music store chain shot and killed a fleeing burglar who had broken into his Queens home yesterday with another thief, police said.
Amalio Santos, head of Rincon Musical, told police he fired his licensed gun outside his Briarwood home when one of the intruders turned and pointed a revolver at him.
The burglars apparently thought Santos' home was empty when they broke in about 10a.m. First the pair rang the front door of the Coolidge Ave. home, but it took Santos' wife, Marilyn, a few minutes to answer.
By the time she got to the door, she looked out to see two strangers at the side of the house using a crowbar to break in through a side door, cops said. She woke up her husband, who rushed to the basement, where he confronted the intruders.
Bloodstained snow
Santos, 47, told cops he chased the two burglars from his basement and fired after one of them pointed a gun at him.
Bloodstains covered the snow on Santos' front lawn where the unidentified burglar fell after being shot once in the face. It wasn't clear whether the burglar who was shot was carrying a gun. No weapon was found at the scene.
The second intruder escaped in a champagne-colored Acura, police said.
Authorities questioned Santos for hours yesterday, but did not charge him.
Authorities said he was a retired federal air marshal and that his 9-mm. semiautomatic handgun was legal.
Santos' lawyer, Steven Gordon, said, "He's as emotional as someone would be after killing someone. I just have the utmost confidence that [Queens District Attorney Richard] Brown will do what's right."
Neighbor Lindy Zilkha, 48, complained about burglaries in the area, saying her own home was ransacked a few years ago.
"I never felt safe here," she said. "It has been quiet, but all of a sudden, it started up again."
Santos' Rincon Musical, which bills itself as the "Latin Music Capital of the World," is a wholesale and retail chain with outlets in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan and New Jersey.
The company's sales reached almost $15 million last year, according to Dun & Bradstreet.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/58850p-55116c.html
