An old family drama bubbled up when a Queens man and his father celebrated the son’s birthday Tuesday and culminated in the son shooting the father dead
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They just got into an argument over old stuff,” said Weesie McGowan, 76, mother of victim Langley Bruce, 55, and grandmother to accused killer Anthony Guyton, 37. “He [Bruce] got back in the car, and Anthony came up and shot him in the heart.”
Cops assigned to an anti-crime unit were cruising by in an unmarked car when they heard a single gunshot about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and raced to the scene. When they arrived outside of Guyton’s home near 143rd St. and 119th Ave. in South Jamaica, a 9-mm. Hi-Point pistol was still in his hand,
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Bruce, of St. Albans, was shot while behind the wheel of his 2013 Chevrolet Impala. He died at Jamaica Hospital.
“I’m in shock,” said the victim’s widow, Alma Bruce. “They didn’t have any problems that I knew of.”
“He was the most wonderful person,” she said
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“Everybody loved Langley.”
Guyton was arrested without incident, police said. He was charged with murder and criminal possession of a firearm.
The son confessed to the killing after being taken into custody, cops said, but did not explain his motive. There was no history of domestic incidents between the pair
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“He was a very likable person,” McGowan said of her slain son. “Anybody you talk to will tell you he was respectable, loving, kind, generous.”
Bruce spoke frequently of his younger son, Darrell, relatives said, but never mentioned Guyton, who has three prior arrests, two for drugs in 1990 and one that is sealed.
“I never heard him talk about that son,” said Bishop McGowan, 75
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“The whole family is so broken up about this. Everybody’s hurt. We’re all hurting.”
