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The 37-year-old later died of his injuries, but the other two were hospitalized in stable condition.
Avila barricaded himself inside an apartment — and called a local news station and confessed — before he was eventually arrested after a stand-off with police.
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“I didn’t mean to do this, but I had to do it because these people were threatening my life,” he told News 12 in the frantic phone call while he was hiding.
His victim — identified by the Daily News as Ryan Hines — was the building’s superintendent who was gunned down as he walked by Avila’s apartment that morning.
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“We’ve had problems with him for over a year,” she added. “He has the issue where anybody going in the backyard, he feels like it’s his and nobody else in the building can go back there.”
Avila has three convictions on his record, including a 2024 misdemeanor assault, and charges for possession of a controlled substance and burglary-related charges from the late 1990s.
