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General69-year-old Apolonio Hernandez shot to death early Sunday morning
Apolonio “Cowboy” Hernandez, 69, a laborer of #137 Albert Street, went out to buy some groceries on bicycle at about seven this morning, but when his family checked on his whereabouts, his having not returned after an hour and their being worried, they found out that he had been murdered.
  
Amandala spoke to one of his daughters, Lisa Alvarez, about the circumstances surrounding her father’s murder.
  
Lisa Alvarez: “He [Hernandez] had gone to the store around seven o’clock to purchase some items, and we kind of got worried around eight o’clock, when he didn’t come back, because he isn’t somebody who would take long on such an errand. And so my brother went to see if he could find him by the Chinese store; he didn’t see him, but he heard rumors that someone had been shot and possibly it was my dad. And so we went to the hospital, and unfortunately, when we got there, it was him and he was in the morgue.”  
  
Police say that they received information at 7:10 this morning that someone, who turned out to be Hernandez, had been shot. According to police, they found him on West Canal near the Prince Street intersection. He was lying on top of his bicycle, face up, with a gunshot wound in the right temple.
  
Police say that their initial investigation revealed that he was riding his bicycle at 7:08 when he was approached by an unknown man who fired a single shot at him, which caused his fatal injury.
 
Alvarez said that she doesn’t know why anyone would want to kill her 69-year-old father, an elderly man. She said that the way the City is going right now, a bullet has no owner and everyone is in danger of being murdered. She said that the gunmen have no respect for children, for women, or for elderly ones if they are willing to fire on these people without remorse.
 
When asked if her father’s killing may have been linked to her brother [his son], Kevin Alvarez, also known as “Cowboy,” who has seen some brushes with the law, and is also a former police officer, she said that her family has considered the possibility, but they don’t believe that to be the reason. She says that she knows that although there will be a lot of speculation in that direction, her family feels it’s a random shooting.
  
She said that her family is grieving the loss, especially due to the fact that it seems to be a random shooting. She said mixed in with the sadness, is anger and they want justice for their father’s murder. He didn’t deserve to die in the fashion he did, they say, because he kept to himself and troubled no one.

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