An unruly and violent son has murdered his own father during a fiasco involving the father's ex-girlfriend.
An NYPD officer at the scene of the incident
A tragic incident has claimed the life of a man after his son allegedly killed him during a drunken brawl. It was revealed that trouble started when Ioannis “John” Safetis, 57, got a call from his ex-girlfriend, asking him to come to her Utopia Parkway home to retrieve his teenagers, a source says.
The Post reports tha Dimitrios Safetis, 19, and his younger sibling had shown up, apparently drunk and belligerent, at the woman’s home. Their father was very annoyed at the boys and tried to caution them.
The elder Safetis was annoyed at his sons. The conflict escalated with “a whole fracas involving the ex, the sons and the ex’s son,” according to a source.
The, John Safetis went to the car and retrieved a heavy steering wheel lock and brandished it at Dimitrios, a source says.
The pair battled until Dimitrios wrestled the steering wheel lock away from his dad and allegedly swung it at the old man’s head, police say.
John Safetis was pronounced dead at New York Hospital of Queens.
Dimitrios and his father often argued, but it never sounded physical, said a neighbor.
“The dad gets really, really drunk,” says Oliver Hue, who lives next door to John Safetis in nearby Auburndale. “He has words of disappointment for the sons. It’s like a pleading tone. ‘Why did you do this to me? Why are you acting like this? You ruined me?’”
Hue says John Safetis sometimes had “lady friends” stop by his apartment. “Very presumptuous of me to say they were hookers but I told them to tune it down and he wouldn’t. He told me don’t talk to me, talk to my landlord,” Hue says.
The son of the dead man has been arrested and awaiting arraignment on manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.