Let's Not Forget Michael Alig Brutally Murdered and Dismembered Angel Melendez, Then Bragged...

[hrmjustin]

Let's Not Forget Michael Alig Brutally Murdered and Dismembered Angel Melendez, Then Bragged About It For Months

Tessa Stuart

Michael Alig was released from prison last week. In the months leading up to his release, and the days since, Alig has been interviewed by Vanity Fair.com, People.com, Huffington Post Live, Inside Edition, Rolling Stone, Deadspin and The Daily Beast. He's scored writing gigs for the New York Post, World of Wonder, and the UK's Gay Times too.

He's been received as a celebrity, while the young man he robbed, murdered, dismembered, and, for months, bragged about killing, has been reduced to a mere footnote.

On Thursday, the New York Times delivered its own profile of Alig. That one describes how Alig was scooped up from Mid-State Correctional Facility last Monday in a 15-person party van filled with drunk revelers. One joked: "We were going to bring a Fisher-Price plastic hammer."

A hammer was the weapon Robert "Freez" Riggs used to hit Angel Melendez over the head, incapacitating but not killing him. It was Alig, his fist wrapped in a sweatshirt, pummeling an unconscious Melendez over and over and over again, that actually finished him off.


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/05/michael_alig_angel_melendez.php

[dhill926]

1. hadn't heard of this before...

guy is a vile piece of shit….

[hrmjustin]

2. I was in those clubs and met both of them when I was a teen.

This was a horrible story that rocked the area and the people who went to the clubs at that time.

[stevil]

3. I worked with a guy who knew them as well....

My buddy used to sell drugs at the Limelight. One early morning we were hanging out after work drinking beers on the street and a guy in a head to toe red leather outfit was walking towards us and my buddy yells "ANGEL". I was introduced to Angel and after some small talk we said goodbye to him. Two weeks later Angel went missing and not long after that my buddy was telling me about all the gossip. Weird.

[hrmjustin]

4. I remember him in Big Cup cafe a few weeks before he was murdered.

I used to do my homework in the limelight when I was in HS in the mid 90's.