Man Is Beaten and Killed in Upscale Hotel

[alp227]

Source: The New York Times

A 65-year-old man was beaten and killed on Friday at a luxury Times Square hotel, the police said.

The police said they were seeking for questioning a 20-year-old man who had been staying with him. The battered, unclothed body of the victim, whose name was not immediately released, was found Friday night in his room on the 34th floor of the InterContinental, a hotel near the corner of 44th Street and Eighth Avenue. Guests at the hotel said they had heard yelling and arguing coming from the room during the day.

According to detectives, the victim and his companion, Renato Seabra, a model from Portugal, had checked into the hotel together about 10 days ago. They said the exact relationship between the two men was unclear.

At some point on Friday, a friend of the victim’s from New Jersey grew concerned and went to the hotel to check on him after spending all afternoon trying to reach him, the police said.

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Mr. Renato, a native of Portugal, was recently one of three finalists on “Face Model of the Year,” a program on SIC, a Portuguese television channel. A profile of Mr. Renato in his local newspaper said he grew up in Cantanhede, a city in central Portugal, and was a basketball player at the University of Coimbra, near his hometown. In the profile, he described himself as religious and shy.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/nyregion/08murder.html

[Tx4obama]

1. The victim is Journalist Carlos Antonio De Castro he was found castrated & bludgeoned

Times Square murder: Journalist Carlos Antonio De Castro found castrated in blood-soaked hotel room

A 65-year-old journalist from Portugal was found dead in a pool of blood inside a room of a posh midtown hotel Friday, police sources said.

Carlos Antonio De Castro's body was discovered naked and lying face up inside his 34th-floor room of the Intercontinental New York Times Square about 7 p.m., the sources said.

He had massive trauma to the head and his scrotum was cut off, sources said.

More here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/01/07/2011-01-07_times_square_murder_man_found_dead_in_bloodsplattered_room_at_intercontinental_h.html?r=news

[boppers]

2. Well, this seems pretty obvious.

Sensational, but pedestrian.

[jerseyjack]

3. Boppers, the scenario may seem obvious to you but

remember, Renato points out he is religious.