Posted: Feb 25, 2010 12:53 AM
Updated: Feb 25, 2010 01:07 AM
Two Arrested in Grand Island Homicide
A Grand Island man was killed early Tuesday morning. Police arrested his girlfriend and her son.
At around 2:30 in the morning, police say a passerby found 51-year-old Paulo Rodriguez
dead on the street just about 200 feet away from his home.
Ruby Haumont, Rodriguez's neighbor, said, "(I'm) scared to death."
It's a neighborhood in shock after residents woke up to police knocking on their doors in
the middle of the night.
Jamie McDonald, a neighbor, said, "I did not see or hear anything until 4 o'clock when police knocked on the door and asked if we heard anything and we didn't."
A wounded Paulo Rodriguez walked out the front door of his South Eddy home and down the block to the West Phoenix intersection. Drops of blood mark his steps.
At around 2:30 am, a passerby saw him lying down at the corner and where police pronounced him dead.
Haumont believes he was at her door a half hour earlier since there is blood spatter up and down her driveway.
Haumont said, "He just knocked on my door. He didn't ask for any help. There was no yelling. There was nothing. I was just too scared to answer the door."
Police aren't commenting at this time on Rodriguez's injuries or what might have lead up to the murder.
His two roommates are under arrest --- 52-year-old Virginia Grant and 21-year-old Jeremy Grant.
Officer Roger Philbeck, with the Grand Island Police Department, said, "Apparently, he was the boyfriend to Virginia Grant. The Grants are mother and son."
Neighbors told NTV News that Rodriguez didn't cause any trouble and pretty much kept to himself.
"Nope. Never met him or anything. They lived here for probably six months or so," said Jamie McDonald. "Just liked to party. That's all they like to do."
"They've had quite a few people in and out partying," said Haumont. "They'd go and come back and they had quite a few people."
Footprints in the snow and blood stains in the street are evidence of a domestic dispute turned violent.
Both Virginia and Jeremy Grant will appear in Hall County Court Wednesday morning for their
arraignment.
An autopsy was performed on Rodriguez on Tuesday.
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