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Cops raid home after workplace murders
By SULAIMAN ABDUR-RAHMAN, Staff Writer
08/03/2008
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Bristol cops haul out several stuffed bags of materials seized yesterday from the borough apartment where accused murderer Robert Diamond lived on the 400 block of Radcliffe Street, which is down the street from the Simon & Schuster warehouse where he allegedly gunned down two workers in a premeditated execution. Diamond, 32, who quit working at the book warehouse in April, was arrested Friday without resistance shortly after the fatal shooting and charged with two counts of first degree murder.
Bristol cops haul out several stuffed bags of materials seized yesterday from the borough apartment where accused murderer Robert Diamond lived on the 400 block of Radcliffe Street, which is down the street from the Simon & Schuster warehouse where he allegedly gunned down two workers in a premeditated execution. Diamond, 32, who quit working at the book warehouse in April, was arrested Friday without resistance shortly after the fatal shooting and charged with two counts of first degree murder.
BRISTOL, Pa. - Borough police yesterday raided the home of the alleged gunman charged with murdering two warehouse employees Friday afternoon on the 2200 block of Radcliffe Street.

Police seized several bags full of materials from the suspect's apartment. While the search was under way, neighbors of the alleged killer said they never spoke with him.

Robert Diamond, 32, who lives on the 400 block of Radcliffe Street, was arrested without resistance Friday at the Simon & Schuster book warehouse after allegedly gunning down two workers with a .40-caliber handgun in front of the facility where he had worked for the last six years before quitting in April, officials said.

Borough cops and Bucks County law-enforcement agents searched Diamond's Radcliffe Street home for hours yesterday on a warrant, leaving around 7 p.m. with bags stuffed with unidentified materials and an iMac computer monitor. Police refused to specify what they confiscated, and they didn't elaborate on what exactly they were looking for at the alleged killer's home.

The two murdered victims were Angel Guadalupe, 46, of Levittown, and Reginald "Reggie" Woodson, 52, of Willingboro, N.J. Woodson was married with four children, according to his relatives. A close friend of Guadalupe said he was married with three children. "He was a good man who loved his family. He was a hard worker," Guadalupe's friend told The Trentonian yesterday.
Guadalupe, who was shot multiple times in a brutal execution, was recently hired at the warehouse as a temp worker well after Diamond quit, according to co-workers.

Woodson worked there for 20 years and was "well-liked" by everyone except Diamond, a "weird" man who had talked trash to all the male workers and would give nasty looks to female workers, according to Lisa Waters, 41, a longtime employee at Simon & Schuster.

As cops searched Diamond's second-floor apartment unit yesterday, neighbors of his stood outside still in shock over Friday's double murder just several blocks down the street.

Brielle Nusser, 11, said she was "scared" that one of her neighbors could be charged with murdering two people right there on her street in the afternoon sunshine. "I was shocked because our friend worked there, but she wasn't there yesterday," Brielle said.

"She would've normally been leaving (the warehouse) at 3:30," which is around the time when the armed carnage began, added Jeannie Lutz, another neighbor of Diamond's. "But she took the day off yesterday. She was just grateful that she wasn't there, as was I. It's just tragic for the families. And it's scary thinking he was only two houses down from us."

"After I heard about the shooting, I was kind of afraid to leave the apartment," said Marc Bolinger, who lives in a unit near Diamond's. "I was thinking, 'Thank God we lock our apartment doors.' "

Every neighbor of Diamond's who spoke to The Trentonian said they never spoke with Diamond before. Some said they believe Diamond didn't spend much time at his Bristol home, because they hardly ever saw him.

Donald L. Crohe, president of the America Hose, Hook, & Ladder Co. Station No. 53, said he arrived at the shooting scene before the cops and said "it was just like a movie" seeing the aftermath of the fatal shooting. "It still hasn't sunk in completely yet."

Waters described the alleged murderer as a "loner" who "was very racist. He didn't like black people at all," said the Simon & Schuster worker who described Woodson as "a buddy" and Guadalupe as "a hard worker."

"I love the place where I work at. But that (double murder) was very upsetting. It was always such a safe place," Waters said, adding that she was standing outside at the south end of the warehouse around 3:30 p.m. during her overtime break on Friday as the shooting was taking place at the north end.

"We all gathered inside in the cafeteria. Everybody was upset and crying."


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Added: Wednesday August 06, 2008 at 09:05 AM EST
Horrible
There are a bunch of sick people out there. May the deceased RIP. I can't imagine what their wives are going through right now; I don't want to imagine. If he wanted to kill, he shudda killed himself...
Ms. Do Rock, Maryland
Added: Monday August 04, 2008 at 09:58 AM EST
Why?
I am very upset. He took my cousin away from his family. He was a loving Father, Uncle,Son, Cousin and Friend. How could he do this? I want him to suffer for what he has done. I want the death penalty or life to rot in h*ll.
N.G, Dover,Delaware

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