He walks round with hatchets. He bangs on doorways. Generally he is bare.
Tenants of an house constructing within the Bronx’s Williamsbridge neighborhood say they’re afraid to go away their models due to the person, who they are saying is constantly roaming their hallways and menacing folks.
One neighbor captured video by way of a peephole of Anthony Orozco standing exterior the door, armed with a hatchet.
Sporting a wig, Orozco yells “Open your door!” in Spanish as he holds up the weapon.
“No matter he can discover in his fingers, he’s going to make use of it to bang down your door,” tenant Alexandra Reina stated. “How can we reside with any person like that?
Leonia Clemente known as the police when the person began swinging at her door with a hammer. He was taken away in handcuffs, once more carrying a wig, most just lately final month.
“It’s all the time scary to go away my home. I all the time need to look out the door each methods,” Clemente says. “It’s day-after-day, you by no means know what’s going to occur.”
She has a brief court-granted safety order in opposition to the person.
Tenants say the harassment has gone on for years. Constructing administration says they’re within the strategy of evicting Orozco. The case is now within the fingers of the Bronx Housing Court docket.
“We want any person to listen to our voice and assist us out. Both get him out and get him some assist, or he is gonna do one thing worse,” Reina stated. “He’s going to finish up killing any person.”
Standing at his house door, Orozco denied any wrongdoing to NBC New York.
He was charged final August with menacing his neighbors. The standing of that case wasn’t instantly clear.
