Strong Island Page #8

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Just do it."

"Dear Candidate,

This is in reply to your appeal

to the City Civil Service Commission

of your disqualification

for appointment

to the above position,

Correction Officer,

Weight.

The City Personnel Director

has granted your appeal,

Qualified."

It's May 15th,

so he has been dead now...

He's been dead for six weeks.

But, hey,

he's medically qualified.

Hello?

Hi!

Oh, I'm getting there.

I had my eyes done.

I certainly look as if

I fought with Muhammad Ali,

he beat me up, went and had dinner,

and came back

and punched me in the face some more!

The children are doing well.

They're not children anymore.

They tell me what to do.

But every now and then,

you've got to put them back in place.

You've got to let them know

that you're still the boss.

I'm still the boss, Yance.

I always knew that.

Thank you for calling.

You brought bright rays of sunshine

in my life.

What are you doing now?

I want to make sure that there's

ice going down the side of your cheek.

Like, to this place, here.

OK.

And down the side of here, also.

You know, so that we get

some ice on the corners.

So why don't you put a piece of tape

from here, back there?

And if you need to take

the earring out, you can.

From what I was able

to put together...

...there was a car accident

on February 16th.

Apparently, it was with

a Super Stang

vehicle, driven by

Mark Reilly.

There was an agreement made

at the scene

that Super Stang would fix the car.

Then time started to stretch out.

By March 19th, Lesline

and your mom went

to the shop to see what

was going on.

Mark Reilly may have said something

that got your mom... your mom upset,

which got William upset.

And William went to the shop

with Kevin Myers.

William was speaking to

Thomas Datre.

Coincidentally, he's in the news

now. Have you seen it?

I have.

William was talking to Datre.

He was very angry

because he'd upset his mother.

He was described as "shaking

with anger."

Wanted to know

who disrespected his mother.

He picked up a car door and was

about to throw it, from a Corvette.

The girl who owned the

Corvette was there

and stepped in. He put

the door down.

At that time William picked up a

vacuum, put it over his head.

The water kind of,

like, fell out onto him,

and he threw the vacuum

and broke it.

He picked up a hammer, and began...

He came at Mark Reilly.

I guess he held him responsible,

because he may have been the one

who disrespected your mom.

He never swung it at him, never hit

him, he never threatened him.

-But he had the hammer in his hand.

-Right.

Mark was petrified.

But other members there,

they actually were kind of, like...

laughing at him.

And they were calling him

a little girl.

I mean, he was obviously

frightened.

Your brother was a big guy,

and he was intimidated.

After that, William went home,

and your mom noticed

that he was soaking wet.

Asked what happened, and he said

that he was... he was wet

with sweat from the gym.

And I followed up on that.

I went to the gym.

But your brother had not been

at the gym that day.

I was there,

the night of the... Corvette incident.

You know, William kept saying,

"What do I have to do?

Why isn't my car being fixed?

You got time to work on everything else."

And he's... kind of like this.

And then he saw the Corvette.

I was like, "No, not the Corvette!"

You know, kind of like that, you know.

And,

he never damaged the car.

And it wasn't a situation.

Because there were guys laughing.

There were people, like... I don't want

to use the word "egging him on,"

but clowning with him.

We were laughing, and clowning, and...

I'd say there were ten to 15 people there.

Scared of what?

The vehicle was

subsequently

released to your... to

your mom, I guess.

There was something

about somebody

from the shop following

the car home,

and as a result of that,

on April 7th,

Kevin Myers, again with William,

returned to Super Stang.

And William was yelling

at Tom Datre,

and ultimately sees Mark,

and goes after Mark.

Mark retreated into the paint room,

where he grabbed a rifle.

Your brother walked into the paint

room and approached,

made a comment about,

"What are you gonna do with that?".

He came at him.

And Mark fired one shot.

Hit him in the chest.

Right.

There was no stone left unturned in

this, I can tell you that.

It's just... an unfortunate thing.

I mean, I certainly put every effort

into this being, you know,

into this being covered

100 percent, 110 percent.

"April 1st, 1992.

Tomorrow, I have to go to court

in downtown Brooklyn,

for my first day of testimony

in the Breen case.

Mr. Boyar is expecting me

by ten o'clock.

I need to pick up my suit from the

dry cleaners before they close."

This is where William was

on April 2nd:
Kings County Court.

This is where William was, April 3rd:

testifying for the prosecution.

This is where William was

on Monday, April 6th.

This is where William was

on Tuesday, April 7th.

Kings County Court,

testifying for the prosecution.

The vehicle was

subsequently

released to your... to

your mom, I guess.

There was something

about somebody

from the shop following

the car home,

and... as a result of that,

on April 7th,

William returned to Super Stang.

And I think it was just, you know...

your brother was caught up

in what had happened to your mom.

I get out. Ford gets out.

I remember him going

into the yard and

somebody coming out of

the shop door,

and meeting him in the yard.

Words started getting exchanged,

and I said, "Oh, here we go."

William was arguing outside, in the yard,

with someone other than the kid

who shot him at the time?

- Correct.

- OK.

So, the person he was arguing with

was Tom Datre, Jr.

-He was sort of the owner of the shop?

-Right.

And that the person who was

in the back, with the rifle...

Excuse me. His name was Mark Reilly.

He was an employee of the shop.

Right.

I read that Datre Jr. had been,

two years before that...

arrested for, essentially,

running a chop-shop out of the garage

at his parents' house.

He recruited kids,

and paid them to steal cars.

And then he chopped up the cars,

and sold... sold off the pieces.

What I'm trying to figure out is...

what happened, if anything?

What did William say,

if anything, to Tom Datre Jr.,

when they were in the yard,

outside of the garage?

You know,

he didn't make any threats.

He didn't say, "I'm gonna beat you up."

He says, "I got accepted to Police Academy

and Corrections Academy.

When I become either one,

I am telling you,

I'm going to get this place shut down."

Ford was serious about what he was saying,

but he wasn't doing anything...

anything that night,

to provoke a fight, or to get shot.

It was a conversation.

"I'm gonna do this, once I become a cop."

Then we started to walk away.

That's when Mark walked out.

He didn't look surprised.

He didn't look panicked.

He just glanced and made a U-turn,

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