Violent ex-con squatting in posh NYC building threatens to kill neighbors, stores gas outside apartment: ‘He’s a terrorizer’

Source: New York Post

A violent ex-con squatting in a swanky West Village building has allegedly spent months terrorizing his neighbors — who say he has turned his apartment into a “flophouse” and regularly threatens to kill them. Tenants and the landlord say Melvin DeJesus weaseled his way into an elderly man’s rent-controlled apartment in the desirable location, at 400 Bleecker St. , last summer, and then never left when the man died later that year.