Neighbor heard screams, shots on night of triple murders
Photo credit: James Carbone | Investigators examine a Central Islip house where three bodies were found by crew responding to a fire at the Hickory Street home. Each of the victims, two women and a man, had been shot to death, one of them also strangled with an electrical cord, authorities say. (Aug. 11, 2009)
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The quiet of a summer night evaporated into screams from a neighboring house, a Central Islip man testified Wednesday at a triple murder trial.
Rigoberto Romero Ochoa recalled that he had been asleep for about an hour when he was awakened by the screams coming from the house on Hickory Street, just behind his home.
He was the first witness in the trial of Hasan Vaughan and Thomas Singletary,...
