New Yorker charged with murder over toilet dispute

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — A New Yorker who was dragged from the rest room of a city nightclub by two men who accused him of taking too long on the toilet has been charged with a botched revenge killing, police said Tuesday.

Luis Paulino, 47, was using the bathroom at a Bronx night spot when two men started banging on the door, and then, after growing increasingly impatient, kicked it down and pulled him out so they could use it.

According to the New York Post, Paulino told police he then went home and fetched his gun and returned to the club to get his revenge.

Paulino is accused of shooting two men, one of them fatally, when he returned. But according to the Post, investigators believe Paulino may have shot the wrong men. Police declined to elaborate when contacted...