Alexander Figueroa Brings Flowers For Ex-Girlfriend Giummia Villa Then Shoots Her Dead

Alexander Figueroa walked into a Long Island City pharmacy holding a bouquet of roses. After conversing with ex-girlfriend Giummia Villa, he pulled out a gun and shot her dead. He then retreated to an apartment where he killed himself, police and witnesses said.

From the Daily News:

It was a bloody end to a volatile romance between Alexander Figueroa and Giummia Villa that produced two children - and two orders of protection.

Just last week, the ex-con had hassled the young mom at work, and cops got orders to pick him up within the last couple of days, sources said.

"They talk and then I heard 'Pop!'" witness Maria Lombar said. "I saw her on the ground. She went down dead. Blood was all over."

The former couple had 9 and 6 year old sons.

In April 2009, Villa took out an order of protection against Figueroa and it was still in effect when she was murdered.

Villa's sister. Yajaira said Figueroa remained undeterred by the order.

"He said he was going to kill her if he didn't get with her," Villa said.

Cops at the 114th Precinct were under orders to apprehend Figueroa if they saw him, according to police sources. The NYPD had no comment on whether any officers went looking for him prior to the shooting.

"They could've prevented something dramatic like this from happening," Villa said. "It makes no sense."

The victim's uncle, Luis Villa, said his niece has been living in fear since the couple broke up two years ago.

"He got flowers for her - he was trying to make her come close to him," he said. "Then he pulled the gun and shot twice."

Comments

[Widespread Panic]

11:12 AM on 02/14/2011

So very sad. Those poor children, they have to grow up knowing how their parents died. How terrible.

[Ami Munro]

07:46 PM on 02/13/2011

This is the reason why I do not like my X boyfriends.

[dayzee10]

09:20 AM on 02/13/2011

Guns don't kill people..............people kill people........yeah that's it.

[littlefairy]

11:58 PM on 02/12/2011

As if a personal protection order ever kept a violent person away from the intended target. Something more needs to be created--what, though?--to protect people from this danger, whether from stalkers or ex-husbands/boyfriends (or maybe even girlfriends). Very sad. It's almost like you have to get into a witness protection program and become someone else and move far far away, to keep yourself alive once such danger and threats exist.

[topkatnc]

06:52 PM on 02/12/2011

There are way to many sick people on this planet .....

[southingtonian]

01:33 AM on 02/14/2011

I had a dream vision in which the planet earth was under a banner reading 'School for the Spiritually Retarded', and a friend used to call it the Room for Improvement.

[phoebequeen]

05:29 PM on 02/12/2011

Another heart breaking tragedy. Feel bad for the kids.

[Sable Lawson]

05:09 PM on 02/11/2011

How pathetic for this homcidial maniac to act like he was trying to be nice by presenting his ex- with some flowers then shoot her.DEATH TO HIM.

[pinkeyelemonade]

05:28 PM on 02/12/2011

In regards to that last part...I think that's already happened...

[wwwDOTQueensbridgeDOTus]

04:00 PM on 02/11/2011

Why did
New York City Housing Authority
harbor this career criminal?

He was living in NYCHA's Ravenswood Houses

If they hadn't, he might not have been so closely located to victim's place of employment!

[Balzac]

12:14 AM on 02/12/2011

Good question. He shouldn't have had any support.

If a man is threatening a woman's life, something more must be done to prevent him from succeeding.

Not every murder can be prevented, but too many women live in fear due to repeated threats from men.

In a case such as this, if it turns out there was a long history of reported death threats being made, he should have gone back to prison.

Condolences to her sons and family. There ought to be institutions to contain men who have not yet murdered their wife, ex-wife, or girlfriend, but who have stated their intention to do so more than once.

They should be industrious and productive while being held in such an institution to offset the costs of their detention.

[Lucille]

03:30 PM on 02/11/2011

My sincere prayers for the children and of course their mother who was tragically taken from them.

As for the killer he deserves nothing, not even a funeral.

[prettybutterflies]

03:10 PM on 02/11/2011

Very, very sad story and my heart goes out to the children. However I do not see what the police could have done to prevent this horrible tragedy from happening.

[southingtonian]

01:37 AM on 02/14/2011

They were already looking for him, according to the article. There must have been a reason. With the protective orders in place, it would have seemed logical to check her vicinity first, no?

[Nicole Dixson]

01:31 PM on 02/11/2011

Very tragic. Her kids are in my prayers.