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BRONX, NEW YORK - A disgruntled tenant shot to death the superintendent of his Bronx apartment building and wounded two men on Wednesday in the midst of an ongoing dispute over access to the backyard — before calling a local TV news outlet as he hid from cops, according to witnesses.
The shooter opened fire at 37-year-old Ryan Hines, who was the building’s super, and a 62-year-old fellow tenant as they passed the suspect’s first-floor doorway in the building on College Ave. near E. 170th St. around 8:30 a.m., cops said.
“I didn’t mean to do this, but I had to do it because these people were threatening my life,” the suspect told News 12 Bronx when he called the station before being taken into police custody. The Daily News is withholding the suspect’s name because charges were still pending against him.
Hines was shot in the chest, cops said. The tenant the super was with, identified by his wife as Orlando Nieves, was struck in the arm, with the bullet then going into the side of his chest.
“My husband got hit twice,” Nieves’ spouse, who gave her name only as Ebony, said. “He was ducking down, and I was pulling him through the door.”
“The super ran out and [the suspect] chased him outside,” she added.
A 59-year-old man was shot in the buttocks as the suspect continued to shoot at the super after chasing him outside, witnesses said. That victim, who is believed to homeless according to News 12, later showed up at an area hospital and is expected to recover.
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