Neighbor Erica Jones witnessed some of the cruelty and said the name-calling was constant. “He was afraid to go to school because he said they were going to hurt him.” They would threaten him all the time,” she added. “They would come up and write on his door. “It was constant bullying for three months,” said family friend Milagros Arroyo, 25. The sources said the woman, a drug addict who is currently incarcerated, was terrified of the phone because she thought cops could track it.Įnraged at the loss, Timothy and his crew began targeting Noel, the sources said. But that changed when Timothy asked for the phone back and Noel had to admit that his mom had found it and thrown it down a garbage chute, law-enforcement sources said. The trouble that led to bloodshed started in March, when Timothy loaned Noel a cellphone. He never should’ve never been back at that school,” Perez said. Everyone failed - the kid was crying out for help. The next day, the family’s worst fears came true, when Noel was jumped in the schoolyard after class by Timothy, a bully who had been suspended for attacking another student at the school.įearing for his life, Noel allegedly killed Timothy with a 6-inch kitchen knife, allegedly stabbing him three times.īut questions remain over what sparked the fatal attack.
Noel’s father, Felix, a street-cart ice-cream salesman, made the request for the emergency transfer Tuesday - but was denied because the school year was about to end, Perez said. Tormented, the teen had tried to hang himself in May. They called his mom a “whore,” mocked Noel’s stutter and even peed on his family’s apartment door.
What was going on was a campaign of bullying by neighborhood kids led by Timothy. “His father went to school on Tuesday and spoke to the principal and told him everything that’s going on.” “His father said, ‘Don’t worry,’” added Perez. “He told his father, ‘I don’t want to go to school because they are going to kill me,’ ” said Marisol Perez, a family friend of 14-year-old Noel, who has been charged with murder in the stabbing of one of his tormentors, classmate Timothy Crump, also 14. I can feel it,” and begged them to get him out of IS 117, sources told The Post. The abuse got so bad that the Bronx teen told his family, “I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die. Beaten, mocked and tormented by classmates, Noel Estevez begged to escape his middle-school nightmare - but in the end, he felt the only way out was at the point of a knife.