New York – A garment salesman accused of systematically shooting three shopkeepers to death as they worked alone in their New York City clothing stores is denying the charges against him.
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Staten Island resident Salvatore Perrone (pehr-OHN’) was held without bail Thursday after his initial Brooklyn court appearance. He was arrested Wednesday on murder charges.
A defense lawyer says Perrone denies killing anyone.
Attorney Ken Jones, who represented Perrone only for the arraignment and hadn’t spent that much time with him, said his client shows no remorse and appears “as though he could have some mental-health issues.”
Perrone, of Staten Island, will be assigned another lawyer when he returns to court on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Police recovered a bag containing a sawed-off rifle. They say Perrone appeared on surveillance footage carrying the bag moments after the most recent shooting, Nov. 16.
The other killings happened in July and August. All three shopkeepers were men from Iran or Egypt.
Authorities initially thought the killer might have targeted them because of their Middle Eastern backgrounds. But police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says there’s no motive he can speak of.
His lawyer says he shows no remorse. That’s very weird. It would be a total ethical violation for him to do that, so it doesn’t make sense.
This will be fun to watch.
I feel for the families, but now that this happened, he seems like a clown
Met this guy he came into my store a few times. Weirdo