Police: Nicaraguan diplomat found with throat slashed

[Renew Deal]

Source: CNN

A Nicaraguan diplomat based in New York was found dead Thursday with his throat slashed in his apartment in the Bronx, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. The victim is not being identified pending family notification.

Read more: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/police-nicaraguan-diplomat-found-with-throat-slashed/?hpt=T2

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[Arctic Dave]

1. Totally fine one day, flips out and slashes his own throat the next...

Nothing to see here, move along.

[davidinalameda]

3. must have missed that part of the article

the cops said that it's too early to rule it either murder or a suicide

do you know something that the rest of us don't?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Slashing one's throat, the time-honored, preferred method of suicide.

Always follows a violent one-man battle in one's quarters.

Nicaraguan diplomat found dead in New York apartmentFrom Susan Candiotti, CNN
September 23, 2010 -- Updated 2016 GMT (0416 HKT)

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The body was found dressed just inside the front door to the apartment, and the door had been left unlocked, Browne said.

Investigators were looking at the case as a murder, he said.

"It appears to be a homicide," he said.

A resident who lives in the apartment below Mercado's told CNN he heard "screaming and banging" from Mercado's residence Wedneday night. Mercado lived on the sixth floor of the building.

More:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/23/new.york.slain.nicaraguan.diplomat/index.html

[flyarm]

2. what did he know..who did he know about , and who was afraid of what he knew..

nothing to see here.........:wtf: :eyes:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Nicaraguan diplomatic official found dead in New York

Nicaraguan diplomatic official found dead in New York
COLLEEN LONG
New York— The Associated Press
Published Thursday, Sep. 23, 2010 2:22PM EDT

A Nicaraguan diplomat whose throat had been slashed was found dead Thursday by his driver, who was picking him up for the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting.

Cesar Mercado, 34, was found at 10:35 a.m. local time in his apartment in the Bronx. The driver found the door ajar and Mr. Mercado's body lying just inside the blood-spattered apartment, police said.

“The knife was found on the floor next to him,” said Paul Browne, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information.

Police were investigating a possible motive, and no suspects were immediately identified.

Mr. Mercado came to the U.S. in 2001 to work as an assistant in the office of Nicaragua's ambassador to the United Nations, a friend said. He was single and his family was in Nicaragua.

He eventually became consul general, working with passports and immigration visas. The assistant to the ambassador said the mission couldn't immediately release any information.

Mr. Mercado's friend Amparo Amador said he was like a son to her. Recently, she'd urged him to go to the doctor because he looked thin, and he had been diagnosed with diabetes.

The two went to the wedding of another friend in Brooklyn just six days ago, where he danced and had fun.

“He had no enemies. He was loved by everyone who knew him,” she said in Spanish. “When I first heard of his death, I thought he must've died from natural causes because there would be no way he could be killed.”

She said he lived the life of a young, single guy, but he wasn't wild.

“He was the perfect guy. The best person, just wonderful,” she said. “I feel as if one of my children has died.”

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/nicaraguan-diplomatic-official-found-dead-in-new-york/article1721502/