69-Year Old NYC Anti-Gay Hate Crime Murder Victim Wasn’t Gay

Yesterday afternoon, 69-year old Ever Orozco was stabbed to death, allegedly by 22-year old Steven Torres, who reportedly claimed the victim had blown him kisses. Now, news reports find that Torres was arrested for another stabbing — using the same excuse, and that Orozco was married to a woman for 15 years, and she is certain he wasn’t gay.

“Steven Torres, 22, told detectives he stabbed Ever Orozco, 69, because he was offended during a chance encounter on a Jackson Heights street Monday afternoon, police sources said,” according to the NY Daily News:

“He (Torres) said the victim was blowing kisses to him. That’s what set him off,” a source said.

Torres also claimed Orozco touched himself, sources said.

But widow Alba Orozco, 64, said Torres got her husband all wrong.
“He loved women,’’ she said, showing off a photo of him celebrating his 65th birthday.

“This man who did this to him is a liar.”

The couple met in Colombia and married 15 years ago. The retired mechanic left behind two sons, Jeffrey, 38, and Harvin, 34, from a previous marriage.

Just two weeks ago, the widow said, Orozco’s first wife died in a car accident.

DNA Info, which tweeted the photo of Ever Orozco and his wife, Alba, adds that Orozco “was a married former MTA worker who had just taken his wife to the doctor, police and relatives said.”

“Yesterday, when I say, ‘Bye Papi, I love you. You’ve been the best husband and I love you forever,’” said Orozco’s greiving wife of 16 years, Alba Orozco. “What can I do? I can cry … no.”

“My husband, he’s not with me. We were out all the time together, everywhere. Now, I am alone,” she added.

Orozco said she couldn’t believe her husband — an MTA mechanic who retired three years ago and spent his time remodeling cars and airplanes, listening to his large record collection, and renovating his apartment — would have ever made a pass at Torres.

“My husband — I never saw anything gay, never, never. I never saw my husband blow a kiss,” she said.

“There’s no words to say, I just have to take it one day at a time,” said son Harvey Orozco, 35, of Jamaica.

Harvey Orozco said his mother Gloria Orozco, who was divorced from Orozco, died last week in a car accident on 94th Street and the Grand Central.

“It’s been crazy. Everything’s coming down all at once,” Harvey Orozco said.

Alba Orozco said her husband sent much of his money to his ailing mother in Colombia, leaving the family with few resources to bury him.

He will be cremated, and there will not be a memorial service because there isn’t enough money to pay for it, she said.

Varying reports also state Orozco was stabbed with a 6 – 8 inch knife about a half-dozen times or more.

If anyone knows of a memorial fund, please contact us and we’ll publicize it.

Our thoughts are with the Orozco family today.

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sounds like it was because of bigotry (against gay people), not necessarily homophobia.
the word homophobia is misused and abused way to often. it's use is butchering the english language.

Yes, and I think it gets worse until it gets better.  Violence against gay people, or those perceived as such as dramatically risen in New York City, about 340% since Same Sex Marriage was approved in New York State.

It some of the 'death crys' of bigotry, as I see it.  And it should settle down in while to lower than it was before.

Still, feel bad for the other people that were murdered, and their friends and families. 

So what if the man was gay or not? Homosexuality should be regarded as a universally acceptable lifestyle. The offender who committed this murder should forfeit his life to the State and be executed for unlawfully taking the life of another human being in an unprovoked attack.

A) Sounds like he was crazy, rater then homophobic, since it's happened before.  Like he has some sort of parnoia disorder mixed with homophobia.  If he weren't homophobic he'd probably being stabbing people for being part of the illuminati or aliens.

B) Anyone else slightly disturbed at how much the article is going out of it's way to prove he wasn't gay? It almost makes it sound like the whole thing is worse because he was straight.

C) Being married for a long period of time doesn't mean you aren't gay. I've known a few married people who even had kids who got divorced later on because they were gay.