SOUTH BRONX — A dispute involving an ex-con's car prompted him to gun down two men in the lobby of a public housing complex Monday morning, police and neighbors said.
The argument happened Sunday night when Willie Stukes, 44, caught Darryl Page, 26, Tykquan Fennell, 23, and Tyrone Igle, 26, sitting on his car parked in front of 3125 Park Ave., neighbors, police and court documents said.
Stukes, who served two years in state prison in the early-2000s for weapons possession, left in a huff, but returned later that same night with a gun and shot Igle in the leg, according to the NYPD.
On Monday morning, about 11 a.m., Stukes was still fuming over the slight when he caught up with Page and Fennell in front of the first-floor elevator of the Morrisania building, neighbors and police said. He shot Fennell twice, once in the head and once in the stomach, and Page twice, once in the head and once in the arm, police said.
Both men were taken to Lincoln Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
Detectives are still investigating what Page and Fennell did after Stukes shot Igle, as well as whether their killing on Monday was in retaliation for the events of Sunday
One neighbor, who only gave his name as Pete B., 60, said that Page and Fennell vandalized a vehicle owned by Stukes' brother, but police could not confirm that account.
Stukes has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 1988, when he was charged with criminal possession of marijuana, according to police. Since then, he has been charged on 12 additional occasions, not including the Monday homicides, for offenses including assault, trespassing, criminal possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest, police said.
Fennell had been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in 2009, but Page had no criminal history, according to the NYPD.
