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发帖数: 1422 | 1 Man Held in Times Sq. Hotel Killing
By AL BAKER
Published: January 8, 2011
Man Is Beaten and Killed in Upscale Hotel
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/nyregion/09murder.html
A day after the bludgeoned body of a prominent Portuguese journalist was
found in a blood-spattered room at the InterContinental Hotel in Times
Square, investigators have taken into custody a suspect in the case: a 20-
year-old man who had been staying with the victim, law enforcement officials
said.
Detectives in Manhattan had the man, Renato Seabra, under guard at Bellevue
Hospital Center on Saturday, the officials said.
But Mr. Seabra had not been charged in the killing of the journalist, Carlos
De Castro, 65, whose badly beaten and sexually mutilated body was found on
Friday night in a room on the 34th floor of the hotel, the officials said.
“Right now he’s in our custody, he’s not charged, and he’s undergoing a
psychiatric evaluation,” said one official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because detectives in the Midtown South Precinct were continuing
their investigation.
Mr. De Castro, who was born in Angola when it was a Portuguese colony and
who wrote articles and books about fashion, gay rights and the nature of
celebrity, and Mr. Seabra, a model from Portugal, checked into the hotel
together several days ago, the officials said.
On Friday, a friend of the victim’s from New Jersey grew concerned and went
to the hotel to check on him after spending all afternoon trying to find
him. Hotel security officials found Mr. Castro dead; his body was unclothed
and had injuries.
“There’s some type of sexual mutilation,” the official said.
Investigators received several tips in the case, and the investigation
quickly focused on Mr. Seabra, the official said.
It turned out that Mr. Seabra had gone to a hospital for treatment of some
physical injuries, the officials said.
Detectives took him into custody. He was then taken to Bellevue “to be
better evaluated,” the official said.
The police and prosecutors were drawing up charges on Saturday in the case,
the official said. |
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