09/03/2008
Killer of Gay Teen's Gloating Explanation: 'Because I Wanted To'
Jeromie Cancel, the killer of gay NYC student Kevin Pravia in his Chelsea apartment over the weekend has shown no remorse over the killing following his confession:
"Cancel, 22, brutalized 19-year-old Kevin Pravia, sat near the honor student's corpse to watch the horror movie 'Saw' and then bragged about the murder to his father, the sources said. Asked why he did it as he was marched out of the 10th Precinct stationhouse Tuesday night, Cancel shouted, 'Because I wanted to. You got a problem with that?' Cancel's father, Jesus Soto, said his son had turned up to boast after the killing. 'All the time he was gloating, like it didn't mean nothing to him,' Soto said, recounting Cancel's bizarre appearance at his Queens apartment. 'He was not remorseful, like he was happy with what he did,' said Soto, 40. 'He had this big smile on him.'"
Pravia was found by his roommate Josephine Madonna, at his apartment on 15th street in Chelsea when she returned from a weekend trip. Pravia was dead, a cord around his neck and a plastic bag shoved down his throat. Cancel stole a cell phone, iPod, and laptop before leaving the apartment. According to the NYDN, "Cancel has been arrested four times in Florida, including for drug possession and for stealing a car, officials said. He was charged with murder and manslaughter in Pravia's death."
Posted 8:03 AM EST by Andy Towle in Crime, New York, News | Permalink
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Most Brazilians I know, and the one I've been dating for almost a year, do not consider themselves Latino.
The loser arrested in Boston is from Brazil there Joe and how stupid for you to say "most (Latinos) are a bunch of homos on the down low"....get a fucking clue man.
And your posts smack just a tab bit racist with your Latin-o shit - grow up.
Posted by: Derek | Sep 4, 2008 10:19:38 AM