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15-06-03, 23:27
Police: Iraq remark led to killing
By Jon Burstein
Staff Writer
Posted June 14 2003
It began as an unremarkable Sunday night at Margarita's. Three customers drank at the small Lake Worth bar while the manager sat watching television updates on the fourth day of the Iraq war.
The conversation naturally turned to the war. Former U.S. Marine Ronald Mellor, who had been downing Smirnoff vodka and tonics, sparked the discussion by talking about the possible execution of American prisoners of war.
Within a half-hour, bar manager John Komyakevich's bullet-riddled body lay near Margarita's back door. Witnesses said Mellor, 61, killed him after becoming upset with the Russian immigrant's comments on the war.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pmellor14jun14,0,1048922.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
By Jon Burstein
Staff Writer
Posted June 14 2003
It began as an unremarkable Sunday night at Margarita's. Three customers drank at the small Lake Worth bar while the manager sat watching television updates on the fourth day of the Iraq war.
The conversation naturally turned to the war. Former U.S. Marine Ronald Mellor, who had been downing Smirnoff vodka and tonics, sparked the discussion by talking about the possible execution of American prisoners of war.
Within a half-hour, bar manager John Komyakevich's bullet-riddled body lay near Margarita's back door. Witnesses said Mellor, 61, killed him after becoming upset with the Russian immigrant's comments on the war.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pmellor14jun14,0,1048922.story?coll=sfla-news-palm