LI PHARMACY KILLER DAVID LAFFER 'A JUNKIE COWARD'

FERGUSON, TACCETTA AND MEJIA

THE SLAUGHTER at Haven Drugs was so brutal even veteran cops were sickened by its senselessness. When accused killer David Laffer walked into the drug store Sunday, "his .45-caliber handgun did the talking" according to the New York Daily News.

Prosecutor John Collins said: "He did not announce a robbery. He simply shot first. This defendant is charged with what I would call the most cold blooded robbery homicide in Suffolk county history. He came back behind them and simply executed them by shooting them in the back of the head." Seven bullets and four people were dead in the shocking bloodbath. Laffer, a 33-year-old pill popping army vet, was in court yesterday for a bail hearing. He and his co-conspirator wife, 29-year-old pillhead Melinda Brady were busted Wednesday. Cops say they were both strung out of their heads.

Victim Jaime Taccetta's uncle James Fegel yelled at the scrawny accused killer: "You're a coward for what you did to those families."
Jaime's brother James added: "I think the whole family should be prosecuted. I'm just glad he was held without bail. He'll never see the light of day. He's a coward and a junkie."
Cops believe Laffer murdered pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, first then clerk Jennifer Mejia, 17, followed by customers Taccetta, 35, and Byron Sheffield. 

LI PHARMACY MANIAC DAVID LAFFER KILLED FOR LOVE

THEY WERE a pill-popping Bonnie and Clyde. And in the end, cops suspect David Laffer massacred four innocents at a Long Island drug store on Father's Day for love. The gun-loving US Army vet, 33, and his 29-year-old wife Melinda Brady were both charged in the chilling slaughter that shattered Medford, NY. He was hit with first-degree murder and she with third-degree robbery. They were busted Wednesday. Both were described by cops and acquaintances as degenerate pill poppers. He had recently lost his job and benefits.
Sources are telling the New York media that detectives
are theorizing the Brady had been jonesing for a fix and played a role in planning the ridiculous caper. In Medford, Laffer was pretty easy to find.

The man loved his painkillers, owned a .45 and looked like, in the words of the NY DAILY NEWS the "weasly-faced" suspect. Video cameras caught the massacre and even veteran cops were stunned by its callous nature. Laffer's capture concludes an intense three-day manhunt for the man who killed two employees and two customers at Haven Drugs, a small family owned pharmacy. Laffer then filled a knapsack with canisters of 10,000 hydrocodone pills.
Pat Moran, whose granddaughter Jamie Taccetta was among the dead said: "I wish they would have shot him from the ankle up...a slow death...and four bullets in his head. You're the devil!"
Indeed.

COPS: DAVID LAFFER IS LONG ISLAND PHARMACY KILLER

COPS IN New York arrested today the man they believe is responsible for the Long Island pharmacy massacre on Father's Day. David Laffer, 33, and his wife Melinda Brady were busted by heavily armed cops Wednesday. Described as quiet, one pal told the New York Daily News that Laffer and his wife was had pain pill problems. He had recently lost his job and drug plan. On Sunday, a man walked into a family-owned pharmacy in Medford and executed two employees and two customers. There were no signs of a struggle.
Friend Joanna Martino said: "This past weekend Melinda was trying to find out if anyone knew what hospital she can go to to get a scrip for pain pills." The arrests following an intense three-day manhunt
that had triggered terror on Long Island.
A witness to the arrest said: "They used a battering ram on the door and less than two minutes later they walked a young man out," Spano said. "He walked right by me. He was cuffed behind his back. He looked withdrawn, like a skull. He looked like death. He looked like there was nothing in him. He didn't say a word."

David Laffer was arrested this morning at his Medford home. Inset: Laffer at an Islanders hockey game in 2006.

COPS: LONG ISLAND PHARMACY MURDERS 'CHILLING'

COPS IN New York are hunting the dope fiend who butchered four innocent people in a Long Island pharmacy Sunday--Father's Day, as the city cries out for justice.  Earlier reports suggest the cops KNOW who the killer is but since backed off. The triggerman executed the four people--two employees and two customers--one by one at point blank range. He then filled his backpack with pills. Cops have called the executions "chilling" and "methodical."
Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said: "It's the most vicious crime that I have encountered. They
offered no resistance and did not appear to provoke the assault. They were all shot at close range. They were shot very suddenly, and very quickly. They were killed for no apparent reason."

It's believed the suspect is armed and dangerous and a hardcore junkie. Police circulated photos showing a skinny white man with short, dark hair and a scraggly beard wearing a white cap, sunglasses, a dark hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
Cops were called to Haven Drugs in Medford by James Manzella, whose fiancee, Jaime Taccetta, 33, went to get a prescription filled. When cops arrived at the store they found Taccetta, pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, his assistant Jennifer Mejia, 17, pictured right, and another customer Bryon Sheffield, 71, all dead. Jennifer hoped to be a doctor .
Her sister Leslie said: "My sister was a good person. She didn't deserve to die--not like that."
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LITTLE LEAGUE MOM JANET CHIAUZZI THREATENS COACH

SHE'S EVERY coach's nightmare. Meet uber suburban mom Janet Chiauzzi, 44, of Long Island. Seems Janet has staked a lot in her son's Little League career. So much that she sent letters threatening series violence to league officials and the coach after sonny was cut. Oh, and for good measure she threw in vicious threats against the coach's wife and teen daughter. And... she allegedly sent letters claiming the coach was sexually abusing his kids.
One of the letters read: "This is a warning to you, and then she names
the man, to step down as manager of the 11 year old travel team and get the hell out of East Meadow baseball all together. You and your son have no business being associated with the travel team...  if the board doesn't pursue any action against you, I'm personally making it my goal to make sure and your family suffers dearly. You will be rotting in hell soon. I will make it happen,"
Our Janet also sent a letter directly to coach's son, who by the way is 11, warning that his family was "going to suffer dearly" and that the young lad will be "rotting in hell." Nice.
But now mom has struck out with the cops. MORE ON THE MAD MOM OF LONG ISLAND LITTLE LEAGUE

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4 DEAD IN MASSACRE AT LONG ISLAND PHARMACY

FATHER'S DAY turned into a bloodbath at a Long Island pharmacy Sunday leaving four people dead. Cops say the botched heist happened at Haven Drugs in Medford, New York around 10 a.m. That's when a man entered the family-owned business wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and brandishing a handgun. The stone-cold killer then executed the four people in the store at the time and fled on foot with prescription pills.
Suffolk County cops say two of the victims, Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17, of East Patchogue (who was going to graduate from high school next week) worked at the drug store.

The other two victims, Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33, were customers. Residents were left in shock by the sinister massacre.
“It’s not like a CVS,” regular customer Stacy Gallagher told The New York Times. “It’s a very homey environment.”
  Other witnesses told the Times the pharmacy’s owner, Vinoda Kudchadkar, collapsed near his store after he learned of what happened Sunday morning.
"This is a vicious, horrible crime," said Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone. "We suspect that robbery was the motive." Cops have videograb of the triggerman as a massive manhunt got underway on Long Island