More justification for lethal force in defense of property
Police have revealed that the mother found murdered and stuffed into a duffel bag at her New York City apartment were a pair of squatters who beat the woman to death.
Nadia Vitels, 52, was found dead in the East 31st Street apartment in Manhattan's Kips Bay on March 14 after her family called the building superintendent to do a wellness check.
The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide on Friday after an autopsy ruled she died from multiple facial fractures, a brain bleed, two broken ribs and blunt-force trauma to the head.
Now, NYPD Chief of Detectives says the suspects - already believed to be a black male and a black female both in their 20s - were squatting in Vitels' apartment.
'We believe that some squatters took the apartment over and this woman came home … and walked in on the squatters that were there,' Kenny said.
Squatting is violence. It is taking property by force. Typically, it's passive aggressive force, but in this case, the squatters murdered a woman to continue squatting. If you come home and find uninvited people in your home, you should have the right to use lethal force to remove those people, before they kill you to squat in your home.