HIV ASSASSIN WAS FUELED BY FEAR OF 'GAY' BLACKMAIL

[Bombtrack]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/1534.htm

The City Hall killer was an HIV-positive man who made meticulous preparations for his own death before setting out to assassinate a political rival who he believed was blackmailing him because he was gay, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Before meeting up with his murder target - Brooklyn Councilman James Davis - Othniel Boaz Askew, 31, laid out on a living-room table his last will and testament, along with a detailed note to a brother specifying where all his bank accounts and other valuables were, police said.

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Askew also claimed Davis offered him an additional $15,000 annually and a no-show staff job. A City Council spokeswoman denied the allegations, and investigators said they had not corroborated Askew's claims.But a well-placed source told The Post Davis had done a thorough background search on Askew, found records showing he had been involved in a gay domestic dispute in 1996, then used the information to blackmail Askew into withdrawing from the race.

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While no independent toxicological studies have been released, police said they believe Askew was HIV positive. They said they found prescriptions for Paxil, Zarret and Viagra, as well as gay porn and sadomasochistic material.Investigators said Askew bought a silver 40-caliber gun with a seven-shot clip in North Carolina in May 2001, and that Askew wore the gun in his waistband on Thursday. He had seven additional bullets hidden in his left sock, and cops speculated he had planned first to empty his gun on his opponent, then to painstakingly reload it. All seven rounds were fired and every one hit Davis - two of them ripping through his body and out exit wounds. A card found in Askew's pocket read "I am not a donor. I'm Jewish," they added. Cops also found a bottle of Valium pills

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Oh Lord do we really need the NY Post?

Let's see all the various ways we can slur a story. Well, first we have "HIV ASSASSIN," a reference to gay porn, a reference to meds, a reference to a black politician blackmailing and outing a gay man, a little something for the Jewbashers.....my god! Who does the Posts copy-editing these days? David Duke?


Sad story though..wonder how much of it is true given the source.

[bearfartinthewoods]

2. if it is true, maybe people will understand why some of us get so

pissed off whe we see liberals trotting out the 'so-and-so is gay'
crap. nothing good can ever come of such evil threats and rumors.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Exactly. The story was catering to people's irrational fears as written

and to Burt...who knows...the guy was on lots of meds to treat his disease. If he had AIDS and not HIV it might have resulted in neurologic disease that can cause such symptoms.

[BurtWorm]

5. This guy sounds plain disturbed.

Paranoid. Tetched. Something was definitely twisted upstairs. He was living in a fantasy world. (Damn! I lost my place in Roget's.)

The point is, I don't believe Davis was blackmailing him; I believe he believed Davis was part of a plot.

[bushisanidiot]

3. This Story Is Horse Puckey

and is nothing but a cover up, IMHO.

[bearfartinthewoods]

4. cover-up of what?