Video exhibits man with hatchet terrorizing Bronx neighbors – NBC New York

He walks round with hatchets. He bangs on doorways. Generally he is bare.

Tenants of an condominium constructing within the Bronx’s Williamsbridge neighborhood say they’re afraid to go away their items due to the person, who they are saying is constantly roaming their hallways and menacing folks.

One neighbor captured video by a peephole of Anthony Orozco standing exterior the door, armed with a hatchet.

Sporting a wig, Orozco yells “Open your door!” in Spanish as he holds up the weapon.

“No matter he can discover in his fingers, he’s going to make use of it to bang down your door,” tenant Alexandra Reina mentioned. “How can we stay with someone like that?

Leonia Clemente known as the police when the person began swinging at her door with a hammer. He was taken away in handcuffs, once more sporting a wig, most not too long ago final month.

“It’s at all times scary to go away my home. I at all times need to look out the door each methods,” Clemente says. “It’s each day, you by no means know what’s going to occur.”

She has a brief court-granted safety order towards the person.

Tenants say the harassment has gone on for years. Constructing administration says they’re within the strategy of evicting Orozco. The case is now within the fingers of the Bronx Housing Court docket.

“We want someone to listen to our voice and assist us out. Both get him out and get him some assist, or he is gonna do one thing worse,” Reina mentioned. “He’s going to finish up killing someone.”

Standing at his condominium door, Orozco denied any wrongdoing to NBC New York.

He was charged final August with menacing his neighbors. The standing of that case wasn’t instantly clear.