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12-20-2007, 05:44 PM #1
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Woman, 24, slain in Corona
12/20/2007
Woman, 24, slain in Corona
By Jeremy Walsh
The 24-year-old Corona mother killed by two gunmen early Monday morning in the Corona bar where she worked was not the intended victim, police said, while another shooting in East Elmhurst less than 24 hours later claimed the life of a young man.
Adrena Valderradama was a Mexican immigrant and married mother, the Daily News reported. Her life ended shortly before 2 a.m. at the Tulcingo Cafe at 95th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
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After a dispute with another patron, two unidentified Hispanic men were told to leave by the bar staff, police said. The suspects did leave, but came back a short time later and opened fire into the bar, authorities said.
Valderrama was shot in the back and a 23-year-old man was shot in the right arm, police said.
The attackers fled in a dark-colored car, police said.
Both victims were taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where Valderradama was pronounced dead. The male victim was listed in stable condition, police said.
The shooting was not the first violent attack to occur at Tulcingo Cafe. In December 2006, a group of alleged gang members attacked four men emerging from the bar at 4 a.m., stabbing two and kicking the others, police said.
Randoph Mejia, owner of El Pollito Dorado restaurant across the street, said the neighborhood changed substantially when the bar opened two years ago.
Mejia said Valderradama was a "bailarina" at the bar, a woman who sells patron drinks and dances to popular songs with men who pay a few dollars.
He said such women draw a rowdy crowd that often congregates outside the bar.
"My brother's car has been vandalized twice," he said. "They come out drunk, and they start fights."
Mejia said the neighborhood has seen an increase in the number of bars with bailarinas recently.
"It increases profits for the bars," he said, "but it brings a lot of problems to the community."
The second shooting occurred in East Elmhurst, on 114th Street between Northern Boulevard and Astoria Boulevard. Police in the 115th Precinct responded at 8:58 p.m. to reports of a male victim bleeding from the head. Officers found a Hispanic man in his 20s dead at the scene. He had been shot once in the back of the head.
Police had made no arrests in either incident by press time Tuesday.
The bar shooting was the fourth murder in the 110th Precinct in 2007. According to online police statistics, there were six homicides in the precinct in 2006.
The 114th Street shooting was the fifth in the 115th Precinct this year. According to online police statistics, there were three homicides in the area by Dec. 16, 2006, but three more people were murdered before the end of the year.
Reach reporter Jeremy Walsh by e-mail at jwalsh@timesledger.com or by phone at 718-229-0300, Ext. 154.
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12-20-2007, 06:48 PM #2
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Most of these so called "bars" are nothing more than whorehouses.
Here in Texas they are all over the place in hispanic neighborhoods.
The guys go get drunk, buy drugs, and get laid all in the same spot.
Some cops in Houston have even been caught protecting/shaking down these bars. Complaints to the local gov't go unheard and police seem to be on the take, so they don't do anything about it. In a hispanic neighborhood it's not uncommon to find a bar in about every other corner and next to every bar there is the ever present "taco truck." Where the guy making the tacos is the same one handling the money, but don't let the health dept. try to impose regulations cause they start crying racism.
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