Noel had already been suffering depression since the death of his brother, Justin, in 2013.Ĭhristopher SadowskiOn May 28, a little more than a year after his brother’s death, Noel tried to kill himself by wrapping a belt around a bar in his bedroom closet and trying to hang himself. “They would chase him into the building, and he would run into friends’ apartments.” “He told a neighbor that he was too scared to go outside,” Guerrero added. “It happened six or seven times in the last three weeks,” he said. Jorge Guerrero, 47, a porter in Noel’s building, said Timothy and several other teens urinated on the Estevez family’s door on a regular basis. “He would repeatedly say, ‘They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me.’ ” They grabbed him in school and cut his hair. He’s constantly running and being chased,” she recalled. “They called him ‘Stutter Box’ and other names I don’t even want to say,” Jones said.
Neighbor Erica Jones witnessed some of the cruelty. People attend a candlelight vigil for Timothy Crump, who was stabbed to death, allegedly by classmate Noel Estevez. “He was afraid to go to school because he said they were going to hurt him. They would threaten him all the time,” she added. “They would come up and write on his door. “It was constant bullying for three months,” said family friend Milagros Arroyo, 25. The sources said the woman, who is currently incarcerated, had feared police could track her through the phone.Įnraged at the loss, Timothy and his crew began targeting Noel, the sources said. The boys had been good friends, but that changed when Timothy asked for the phone back and Noel had to admit his mom had found it and thrown it down a garbage chute, law-enforcement sources said. The trouble began in March, when Timothy loaned Noel a cellphone. He never should’ve never been back at that school,” Perez said. Everyone failed - the kid was crying out for help.
The next day, the family’s worst fears came true, when Noel was jumped in the schoolyard after class by Timothy, who had been suspended for beating another student at the school.įearing for his life, Noel allegedly killed Timothy with a 6-inch kitchen knife, stabbing him three times.īut questions remained over what prompted the fatal attack. Noel’s father, Felix, a street-cart ice-cream salesman, made the request for the emergency transfer Tuesday but was denied because the school year was about to end, Perez said. Tormented, Noel had tried to hang himself in May. They called his mom a “whore,” mocked Noel’s stutter and even peed on his family’s apartment door. What was going on was a campaign of bullying by neighborhood kids led by Timothy. “His father said, ‘Don’t worry.’ His father went to school on Tuesday and spoke to the principal and told him everything that’s going on.” “He told his father, ‘I don’t want to go to school, because they are going to kill me,’ ” said Marisol Perez, a family friend of Noel, 14, who has been charged with murder for fatally stabbing one of his tormentors, classmate Timothy Crump, also 14. The bullied Bronx teen told his family, “I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, I can feel it,” and begged them to get him out of IS 117, sources told The Post. Beaten, mocked and tormented by classmates, Noel Estevez begged to escape his middle-school nightmare - but in the end, he felt the only way out was at the point of a knife.
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