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July 27, 2003 -- A deranged father furious over seeing his estranged common-law wife with another man hanged their 22-month-old son to death at a Queens motel yesterday, police said.
Little Omar Arias was found dangling from a shower curtain rod in the Crown Motor Inn about a half hour after his father, Juan Batista, checked into the $100-a-night Elmhurst Motel at 74-01 Queens Blvd. at 1 a.m. yesterday, cops said.
"After about a half an hour, [Batista] came down and said, 'I killed somebody; call the police,' " said motel co-owner Harshad Patel.
Patel said on-duty night desk clerk Hiren Patel immediately phone cops, who stormed into Room 303 on the third floor and found the boy had been hanged with an electrical cord.
The tot was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital.
Batista remained in the motel lobby and surrendered to police. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and placed under psychiatric observation.
He is charged with second-degree murder.
Little Omar Arias was found dangling from a shower curtain rod in the Crown Motor Inn about a half hour after his father, Juan Batista, checked into the $100-a-night Elmhurst Motel at 74-01 Queens Blvd. at 1 a.m. yesterday, cops said.
"After about a half an hour, [Batista] came down and said, 'I killed somebody; call the police,' " said motel co-owner Harshad Patel.
Patel said on-duty night desk clerk Hiren Patel immediately phone cops, who stormed into Room 303 on the third floor and found the boy had been hanged with an electrical cord.
The tot was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital.
Batista remained in the motel lobby and surrendered to police. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and placed under psychiatric observation.
He is charged with second-degree murder.