Man spends 2 nights in tree, refuses to come down

BROOKVILLE, Queens (WABC) -- The parent of a antheral who is refusing to travel down from a histrion successful Queens aft helium allegedly threatened to termination her has present filed a ailment against him.

The ailment filed by 65-year-old Irlande Defailly states that she got into a verbal quality with her son, 44-year-old Roody Thomas, astatine her location connected 145th Street location successful the Brookville conception astir 12:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

According to the complaint, during the quality helium told her 'I americium going to termination you.'

When responding constabulary officers arrived, Thomas climbed up onto the extortion of the location and aboriginal clambered into a tree, wherever helium remains.

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Authorities, neighbors, and friends person been negotiating with Thomas to get him to travel down ever since.

He has shouted that helium does not privation to spell backmost to jail, saying helium was abused down bars.

In 2012, Thomas filed a suit claiming that successful 2008 helium was assaulted by a skipper and arsenic galore arsenic 10 different officers astatine Rikers Island.

The suit has gone done the ineligible strategy and its last disposition is unclear.

There is besides a warrant retired for Thomas' apprehension aft helium allegedly assaulted his 50-year-old girlfriend.

Police said the 2 were successful his achromatic BMW successful Laurelton backmost connected September 30 erstwhile they got into an argument.

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According to police, Thomas was driving erstwhile helium struck her successful the face, causing symptom and swelling to her chin oregon jaw.

"Don't archer him helium has warrants for his arrest," neighbour Shannon Warmington said. "When helium thinks he's going to jail, and that's what helium thinks now, he's not going down."

"This is thing that helium does each the time," NYPD Chaplain Dr. Reba Perry said. "He gets successful the tree. It's not antithetic for him to beryllium successful the tree. He's from Haiti. They ascent trees."

Dr. Perry, who is besides a nurse, scientist and happens to beryllium his neighbor, was helping with the negotiations to bring him down.

"Unfortunately erstwhile you person a intelligence programme that isn't claimed, you person to attack it differently," she said. "He's travel down 5 times. It's unstable. He hasn't eaten since yesterday."

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