Yep. Just another 'hard-working' 'illegal' 'alien'... 'living' in a 'sanctuary' city... turns out it wasn't much of a sanctuary for Adrienne...
Ahhh... The Portrait of Diego Pillco slowly comes into focus... but I still doubt that he, at his age and heralding from Ecuador, even had $12,000.00 cash... and then, having at his disposal what amounts to a pretty nice bundle to me, decides to up and risk it all on a trecherous trip north.
I do not buy that for a second. Nope. No way.
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ACTRESS SET OFF ILLEGAL'S 'KILLER' RAGE BY CALLING HIM 'S.O.B.'
By LARRY CELONA, MURRAY WEISS and DAN MANGAN
TRAGIC CLASH: Adrienne Shelly asked construction worker Diego Pillco to be quiet below her Village apartment. He allegedly strangled her, then staged a fake "suicide."November 8, 2006 -- A 19-year-old construction worker flipped out, hitting and strangling indie actress Adrienne Shelly with a bed sheet because she dared to call him a "son of a bitch," police sources said yesterday.
Ecuadorian illegal immigrant Diego Pillco told cops he took that insult literally and became enraged during a confrontation with the pint-sized actress last week over noise he was making in the apartment below her Greenwich Village office, sources said.
Police also revealed that Shelly, 40, desperately tried to fight off the baby-faced worker during the attack, leaving scratch marks on his face.
"She didn't go easily," said a law-enforcement source.
Those and other details about Shelly's killing emerged as Pillco was ordered held without bail on a charge of second-degree murder. On Monday, he allegedly confessed to the shocking crime and admitted staging it to look like she had hanged herself in her bathroom.
Pillco himself was placed on suicide watch at his lawyer's request during an arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court, where Assistant District Attorney Marit DeLozier said an autopsy determined that Shelly died "from compression to the neck."
Shelly's family and friends sat shiva yesterday in her TriBeCa apartment, where one distraught pal said, "You can't believe someone would rip her away."
A native of the city of Cuenca, Pillco arrived in the United States in the summer of 2005 after paying smugglers $12,000 to sneak him over the Mexican border, law-enforcement sources said.
Pillco eventually made his way to Brooklyn, where he moved into a basement apartment with his brother Wilson - who had arrived months earlier - at 328 Prospect Ave., where a cousin also lived. 
His landlord, Louis Hernandez, (pictured right) hired Pillco to work as a part-time helper for his construction company, even though - by his own admission - he knew the immigrant did not have legal working papers.
Still, Pillco "demonstrated a respectful, well-mannered, decent and responsible behavior toward our client, co-workers and within our business," Hernandez said in a prepared statement. "He just seemed to be another hardworking immigrant."
His landlord, Louis Hernandez, (pictured right) hired Pillco to work as a part-time helper for his construction company, even though - by his own admission - he knew the immigrant did not have legal working papers.
Still, Pillco "demonstrated a respectful, well-mannered, decent and responsible behavior toward our client, co-workers and within our business," Hernandez said in a prepared statement. "He just seemed to be another hardworking immigrant."
(I smell the distinct odor of pure Ecuadorian bullshit)
Pillco's cousin told The Post that the accused killer was "quiet and peaceful. He didn't have a temper," and was working to pay off his smuggling debt, and to support his parents and five siblings back in Ecuador. Recently, Hernandez was hired to renovate apartment 37 at 15 Abingdon Square in Greenwich Village, a rental unit that had become vacant after its tenant's death.
Pillco's cousin told The Post that the accused killer was "quiet and peaceful. He didn't have a temper," and was working to pay off his smuggling debt, and to support his parents and five siblings back in Ecuador. Recently, Hernandez was hired to renovate apartment 37 at 15 Abingdon Square in Greenwich Village, a rental unit that had become vacant after its tenant's death.
(Wait a minute, in other reports, and above in this one, they state that he already "paid" the smugglers... I have a feeling that Hernandez, and other sleezes like him, are importing what amounts to human slaves into our country, and that they think it's 'bueno'. I suspect that Hernandez imports people for all kinds of things... I suspect he's part of a human slavery and trafficking ring... I also suspect that we can expect more of this in our country as we add more enterprising third world illegal aliens and other 'hard-working' immigrants, such as Hernandez and his ilk. America is changing, my friends. The new face of America isn't pretty. Take a good look.)
On Nov. 1, Pillco and two other workers were doing spackling and other work there.
The unit is directly under unit 47, which Shelly both sublet and used as an office for her film-production work when that tenant was away.
Shelly was in apartment 47 that morning after her marketing-executive husband, Andrew Ostroy, dropped her off. Just before 9:30 a.m., Shelly became annoyed by noise from the work in the apartment below, and walked downstairs to complain, sources said.
Although there were two other workers there, Shelly saw only Pillco, who was standing on a ladder.
The actress told Pillco - who speaks little English - to be quiet by putting a finger to her mouth and saying, "Shhhh," a source said.
Pillco yelled at her in Spanish to get out, descended from the ladder, picked up a hammer and pounded the floor with it before again ordering her to leave.
Pillco, who is at most an inch taller than the 5-foot-2 Shelly, then shoved her out of the apartment and closed the door. But Shelly reopened the door and slapped his face before heading back upstairs, sources said.
Pillco followed Shelly upstairs into her apartment, where she yelled at him to leave, and called him a "son of a bitch."
He responded by punching Shelly, knocking her to the ground, sources said. Law-enforcement sources said he may have hit her several times, and that she became unconscious.
Pillco told police he put his head to Shelly's chest, and could not hear her breathing.
Fearing he had killed her, and that he would be deported, he wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and dragged her body into the bathroom, where he attached one end of the sheet to a shower-curtain rod, sources said.
It is not clear whether Shelly died from the sheet being wrapped around her neck, from being dragged with it or from being hanged. An autopsy ruled she did not die from a blow to her head.
Pillco left Shelley's apartment, but did not return to work in the apartment below for several hours. When he did, he was sporting a cut on his face, which he told co-workers occurred when he got into a fight with some movers.
Shelly's husband, Ostroy, discovered her dead later that afternoon.
Police initially were inclined to believe that she had killed herself, but were concerned about several mysterious Reebok sneaker prints they found on the toilet seat in Shelly's bathroom.
On Sunday, when detectives returned to the apartment to collect Shelly's computer and wallet, they stopped by apartment 37, whose door was open. On the floor, on sheets of dusty construction paper, they saw a sneaker print that matched the ones in police photos from Shelly's bathroom.
Cops soon tracked down Hernandez's workers, who told them Pillco had been wearing sneakers.
Pillco was picked up by detectives at his home early Monday morning, and brought to the 6th Precinct station house in Manhattan for questioning.
At first, he denied any knowledge of Shelly's death.
"He was acting like nothing happened," one source said. "He was like ice."
But after about a half-hour of interrogation, Pillco began confessing to the murder in a matter-of-fact manner, the source said.
His admission and the fact that police matched his Allen Iverson-model Reeboks to the prints found in Shelly's bathroom, led to his arrest Monday.
On Nov. 1, Pillco and two other workers were doing spackling and other work there.
The unit is directly under unit 47, which Shelly both sublet and used as an office for her film-production work when that tenant was away.
Shelly was in apartment 47 that morning after her marketing-executive husband, Andrew Ostroy, dropped her off. Just before 9:30 a.m., Shelly became annoyed by noise from the work in the apartment below, and walked downstairs to complain, sources said.
Although there were two other workers there, Shelly saw only Pillco, who was standing on a ladder.
The actress told Pillco - who speaks little English - to be quiet by putting a finger to her mouth and saying, "Shhhh," a source said.
Pillco yelled at her in Spanish to get out, descended from the ladder, picked up a hammer and pounded the floor with it before again ordering her to leave.
Pillco, who is at most an inch taller than the 5-foot-2 Shelly, then shoved her out of the apartment and closed the door. But Shelly reopened the door and slapped his face before heading back upstairs, sources said.
Pillco followed Shelly upstairs into her apartment, where she yelled at him to leave, and called him a "son of a bitch."
He responded by punching Shelly, knocking her to the ground, sources said. Law-enforcement sources said he may have hit her several times, and that she became unconscious.
Pillco told police he put his head to Shelly's chest, and could not hear her breathing.
Fearing he had killed her, and that he would be deported, he wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and dragged her body into the bathroom, where he attached one end of the sheet to a shower-curtain rod, sources said.
It is not clear whether Shelly died from the sheet being wrapped around her neck, from being dragged with it or from being hanged. An autopsy ruled she did not die from a blow to her head.
Pillco left Shelley's apartment, but did not return to work in the apartment below for several hours. When he did, he was sporting a cut on his face, which he told co-workers occurred when he got into a fight with some movers.
Shelly's husband, Ostroy, discovered her dead later that afternoon.
Police initially were inclined to believe that she had killed herself, but were concerned about several mysterious Reebok sneaker prints they found on the toilet seat in Shelly's bathroom.
On Sunday, when detectives returned to the apartment to collect Shelly's computer and wallet, they stopped by apartment 37, whose door was open. On the floor, on sheets of dusty construction paper, they saw a sneaker print that matched the ones in police photos from Shelly's bathroom.
Cops soon tracked down Hernandez's workers, who told them Pillco had been wearing sneakers.
Pillco was picked up by detectives at his home early Monday morning, and brought to the 6th Precinct station house in Manhattan for questioning.
At first, he denied any knowledge of Shelly's death.
"He was acting like nothing happened," one source said. "He was like ice."
But after about a half-hour of interrogation, Pillco began confessing to the murder in a matter-of-fact manner, the source said.
His admission and the fact that police matched his Allen Iverson-model Reeboks to the prints found in Shelly's bathroom, led to his arrest Monday.
Additional reporting by Dareh Gregorian, John Doyle, Douglas Montero, Laura Blue, Philip Messing, Tatiana Deligiannakis and Kieran Crowley
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Actress%20Set%20off%20Illegals.html
posted by jillosophy at 11/13/2006 01:08:00 PM
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This issue has yet to be really picked up by the mainstream press, but it is alive and well in the blogsphere.
This seems to me to be a prime example of the dangers of our failed immigration policy. Perhaps her death will finally bring to light what many of us already know. We are more at risk of dying at the hands of an illegal immigrant than an Al-Queada attack.
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