By Gwen Filosa
The Times-Picayune
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly dying before reaching a hospital in 2003, Tyrone Wells admitted killing restaurant owner Jose Vazquez and that he at first lied to paramedics that he was an employee of the Gentilly business, an Orleans Parish jury heard Monday.
Bleeding with his intestines exposed, Wells recanted, according to the paramedic.
“I asked him, ‘Did you do this?’” Lawrence Rivera testified at Criminal District Court, where Wells is charged with capital murder. “He said, ‘Yes.’”
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