Shooting in Millwood?

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Watching News 12 (Sunday PM edition) I saw report of poss road rage shooting incident that occurred in Millwood last night some time...no further as to location was given as is seen on the info bar at the bottom of screen...did have info as to Chappaqua couple as victims, female shot in the head and male shot in stomach.

Gotta watch out who you piss off on the road...Anyone with info please share.

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Chappaqua couple shot in road rage incident

By BRIAN HOWARD

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: November 19, 2006)

A Chappaqua woman was shot in the head during a road rage altercation and was driven to the hospital by her husband, who also was shot in the abdomen during the same incident.

The double-shooting happened at 11:15 last night on Route 100, just south of Route 133.

Carlos Perez-Olivo told police said he was driving south on Route 100 when another motorist cut him off and forced him to pull over. A man then entered their vehicle with a handgun, and a struggle ensued.

After the shooting, Perez-Olivo was able to drive to Northern Westchester Hospital Center in Mount Kisco where his wife, Peggy Perez-Olivo, remains listed in critical condition.

Police described the man they are searching for in connection with the shooting as Hispanic, about 6 feet tall with brown hair and a mustache, and wearing a baseball cap, a dark jacket, dark blue jeans and white sneakers.

The suspect was accompanied by two other individuals in a dark colored sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry.

Anyone with information is asked to call the New Castle Police Department at 914-238-1566.

Police have scheduled a 1:30 press conference this afternoon to discuss the case.

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business deal gone bad or road rage?????????

Sounds a little fishy...but I was not there...

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smells like sheepshead bay as the boats are coming in.

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business deal gone bad or road rage?????????

Sounds a little fishy...but I was not there...

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On the radio today they mentioned that the male "victim" had a prior problem with the female victim's brother - don't know if they said he tried to kill him or threatened to!

Just a little bit strange that she got shot in the head and he only got shot in the abdomen and then DROVE to the hospital.

It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out!

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MSNBC reports that the victims were neighboors of the clintons... another twist in the story! (well, a reason that it's the front page of MSNBC's website???)

NEW CASTLE, N.Y. - A disbarred lawyer and his wife who live on the same cul-de-sac as former President Bill Clinton were forced off the road as they drove home from Manhattan and were shot, police said.

Carlos and Peggy Perez-Olivo remained hospitalized Monday after being attacked Saturday night, according to police. Northern Westchester Hospital would not disclose their conditions.

The couple — he a recently disbarred criminal defense lawyer, she a teacher’s assistant — were driving to their Chappaqua home from Manhattan when they were shot, New Castle Town Police said.

According to police, the couple was on a desolate part of Route 100 when a car cut in front of their sport utility vehicle and forced them off the road around 11 p.m.

A man with a gun got out and entered the SUV through a back door, and Carlos Perez-Olivo fought with him, police said.

“Mr. Olivo attempted to wrestle the gun from him, and there were several shots fired,” Detective Sgt. Marc Simmons said.

Victim drives to hospital

Carlos Perez-Olivo, 58, was shot in the abdomen but managed to drive 10 miles to the hospital as the gunman and two others believed to be in the attacker’s vehicle fled, police said. Peggy Perez-Olivo, 55, was shot in the head.

Police said they had not been able to identify any suspects or determine a motive. They could not say whether the shooting was a random attack or connected to Carlos Perez-Olivo’s work as a criminal defense attorney.

He had practiced law in New York from 1980 until he was disbarred in August, according to state court records. State Supreme Court appellate judges found he “repeatedly refused to return unearned funds or retainers to clients.”

Carlos Perez-Olivo was previously accused of incompetence for failing to recall portions of his closing argument in defense of a waiter convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife’s lover last year in a Manhattan subway station.

There was no home telephone listing for him or his wife in Chappaqua. No one answered the door Monday at the couple’s blue and white Colonial home, one of eight houses in the cul-de-sac. It is three doors away from the home of the former president and Sen.  Hillary Rodham Clinton, which has a guardhouse at the foot of its driveway.

Acquaintances said they were mystified by the shooting.

“They’re a very nice couple, great folks, sweet people,” said their landlord, Gerard Gorman.

Spokespeople for the Clintons did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Insurance????? I still think he knows the shooter, very well. Now, the only one with that info is him since the wife has passed away. So, if he is not telling now, what makes us think he will tell at all.

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He had practiced law in New York from 1980 until he was disbarred in August, according to state court records. State Supreme Court appellate judges found he “repeatedly refused to return unearned funds or retainers to clients.”

Could it have been an angry former client??????????????????????????

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Chappaqua woman dies after shooting that also wounded her husband

By JORGE FITZ-GIBBON, DAVID NOVICH AND BRUCE GOLDING

THE JOURNAL NEWS

How to help

New Castle police are asking anyone with information about the shootings of Carlos and Peggy Perez-Olivo to call detectives at 914-238-1566.

(Original publication: November 21, 2006)

NEW CASTLE - A disbarred lawyer from Chappaqua who was injured in an unexplained roadside shooting that killed his wife is being treated by police "as a shooting victim," but the lead detective also said "nobody's being ruled in or out" as a suspect in the slaying.

An autopsy was scheduled for today on Peggy Perez-Olivo, a 55-year-old teaching assistant, who died about 3 p.m. yesterday, New Castle Detective Sgt. Marc Simmons said during an evening news conference. She was shot in the head late Saturday night.

Carlos Perez-Olivo, 58, told police he and his wife were forced off the road and attacked while driving to their home on the same street as former President Clinton's house. He remained hospitalized in stable condition, with a gunshot wound to the left side of his abdomen, Simmons said.

Simmons released a sketch of a man that Carlos Perez-Olivo identified as the couple's assailant, and asked for the public's help in solving the case, the first shooting in town since 1999. He said police also are looking at video surveillance of a Mobil gas station near the site.

"It's an unusual incident, an unusual-sounding incident, but at this stage it's far too early to make any determination as to the specifics," he said.

Detectives plan to focus their investigation on Carlos Perez-Olivo's former clients, Simmons said, as well as his account of being shot by someone who opened a rear door and entered the couple's sport utility vehicle.

"That's a topic we're going to flesh out with additional interviews," Simmons said. "I'm not entirely clear on that either, yet."

Carlos Perez-Olivo, who made headlines last year for botching a murder case, told police the couple were traveling on a lonely stretch of Route 100 in Millwood after an evening in New York City when their silver Mitsubishi Montero was forced off the road by a dark sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry, about 11:15 p.m. Saturday.

A man got out of the sedan, opened a door to the SUV and shot Peggy Perez-Olivo in the head and, after a struggle, shot him in the abdomen, Carlos Perez-Olivo told police.

During yesterday's news conference, Simmons said the husband told police the couple were in Millwood - across town from their home - to get gasoline. Simmons said the husband, who drove to Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, called 911, but he declined to discuss the conversation.

Simmons also would not say what evidence police had recovered or how many shots were fired.

Carlos Perez-Olivo appeared to have no shortage of enemies after being disbarred earlier this year for cheating four clients out of tens of thousands of dollars.

He also lost a Manhattan murder trial last year after abruptly stopping his summation and telling the jury he had forgotten the rest of his closing argument, according to published reports.

Carlos Perez-Olivo is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, but he gave up his law license in Puerto Rico in 2000, after failing to answer to disciplinary charges there, according to the New York Law Journal.

He continued to practice in New York out of an office in Queens until he was disbarred.

Peggy Perez-Olivo was a teaching assistant at Douglas Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, where she began working in 1999. She always did an outstanding job and worked primarily with first-graders this year, Principal Michael Kirsch said.

Yesterday morning, teachers in grades one through four explained to the students that Peggy Perez-Olivo had been hurt and was in the hospital, Kirsch said. The teachers answered students' questions and confirmed whatever the children had learned through news reports, he said.

The couple's home is a rented, two-story blue-and-white Colonial at 1 Old House Lane, at the bottom of the cul-de-sac where the former president and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton live in Chappaqua. The Perez-Olivos' house is three doors from the Clintons'.

No one answered the door at the Perez-Olivo home yesterday, but two men emerged from the rear and told reporters to leave because they were trespassing.

One man identified himself as a family spokesman, but said he was not a relative. He said all news would come from the hospital.

A spokeswoman for Northern Westchester Hospital declined to answer questions about either Carlos or Peggy Perez-Olivo.

Their landlord, Gerard Gorman, called them a "very nice couple, great folks, sweet people."

Before moving to Old House Lane, the family rented a house at 3 Devoe Road in Chappaqua, about five minutes away.

Neighbors there said the family kept to itself and had no real friends on the block.

As news of the shootings spread, Chappaqua residents were shocked by the extreme violence so close to their homes.

Shirley Azoulai, who has a son in the ninth grade in the Chappaqua schools, said the shootings did not seem random. She was surprised that they occurred on Route 100 just south of Route 133 - a busy road during the day.

"It's really surprising that it was in that spot," Azoulai said. "The whole thing just feels very deliberate."

Her neighbor, Leslie Fass, said she was horrified. "The urban problems are finally coming to the country, rather than just suburbia," Fass said.

The last homicide in New Castle involved a wrong-way driver on the Taconic State Parkway in 2003. The last shooting came during a botched holdup at Millwood gas station in 1999. The victim survived.

The Associated Press contributed information for this report.

Reach Jorge Fitz-Gibbon at jfitzgib@lohud.com or 914-694-5016.

Maybe I watch too much Court TV and Forensic Files but something with this whole incident sounds VERY FISHY!

You are shot in the Abdomen but your Wife is in the Head.

Coincidence? Maybe or Maybe not.

Marital problems?

Money problems?

Wife Life Insurance?

Did you call 911? What was said?

Did you flag anyone down for help?

Did anyone see or hear anything suspicious?

(24 HR Deli right around the corner)

Out for Dinner in NYC. Any witnesses?

I am thinking this whole thing was staged and she was not

shot on Route 100.

I don't think we heard the last of this story.