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NY) Another New Yorker Charged While Defending His Family
Man Fatally Shoots Armed Intruder
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Man fatally shoots armed intruder in mom’s apartment

The Associated Press
2/19/03 6:20 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — An airman at home in Queens fatally shot an armed man breaking into his mother’s apartment, police said.

The mother had recently won a $100,000 lottery payout, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday, but police said they did not know whether that motivated the break-in. A state Lottery Division spokeswoman did not return a phone call Wednesday.

Manuel Falquez, 22, an Air Force information manager stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, was in his mother’s third-floor apartment with his girlfriend Tuesday night when a man with a .38-caliber revolver appeared on the living-room balcony and began to jimmy the door with a knife, police said.

Falquez grabbed an unlicensed 9mm pistol and ordered the intruder to drop his weapon, police Deputy Inspector Kenneth Mekeel said. Falquez shot the man once in the head when the intruder held onto his gun, Mekeel said.

A spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Falquez would be charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

A woman who answered the phone at the apartment said she did not speak English and hung up.