Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
A man fell out of the fourth-floor window of his apartment and plunged to his death after he was accused of groping a 6-year-old boy.
Edgar Collaguazo, 44, was attending a birthday party for the boy in his Queens apartment early on Thursday when the incident happened. The birthday boy and his parents lived in a bedroom in Collaguazo’s apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and that was where the party was taking place. As the party was in full swing, Collaguazo invited at least three of the children — including the birthday boy and his 5-year-old female cousin — into a bedroom to watch a movie and that was when trouble began.
The girl’s mom said she noticed a change in her daughter's behavior when she emerged from the bedroom. She said the girl went into the room happy but when she emerged, she looked different. The boy's father peeked into the room and saw nothing out of the ordinary. But when the little girl’s mother looked into the room, she says she saw Collaguazo fondling the birthday boy’s genitals. She immediately went to the birthday boy's mother to report.
"She came to me frightened and crying," the boy’s mom said. "We never thought the man had a mind this dirty."
At that point, chaos ensued as the men at the party began beating Collaguazo. They stopped when the boy's mother told them to stop beating him that she has already called the police. Collaguazo fled into his bedroom and the furious parents locked him inside. Later, when the parents looked into the room, Collaguazo was gone. When they looked out the window they saw Collaguazo’s body laying on the ground.
"If he didn’t have a filthy mind, (he’d) simply stay and face the situation," the boy’s mother told the Daily News.
A witness leaving a friend’s house across the street told police he saw Collaguazo struggle to climb over burglar bars.
"The guy had one foot on the ledge trying to climb over the bars," Jose Valentine said. "He let himself go head first and landed with a thud and splatter. It sounded like a pumpkin fell off the roof."
Police responding to the 911 call found Collaguazo’s lifeless body outside his apartment near the intersection of 95th St. near 35th Ave. Police say Collaguazo fell out of the window of his Jackson Heights apartment at 1:05 a.m. on Thursday after fleeing the furious parents of the birthday boy.
Meanwhile, the estranged wife of Collaguazo, Rocio Marin, 49, refuses to believe the molestation allegations and is asking for answers.
"I want to know what actually happened," Marin said. "Everybody just blamed it on him."
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