Immigrant found dead behind NYC pizzeria was hissy-pissy drunk, local who wheeled him there on office chair says
A Staten Island man found dead behind a local pizzeria was “hissy pissy drunk” on the ground just hours earlier — according to a neighbor who cops say helped wheel him there in an office chair.John Young told The Post the victim, identified by sources and neighbors as Julio Morocho, 34, was sprawled out on his driveway early Sunday — and asked repeatedly to be taken to the pizza joint.“My daughter is a nurse and she called me and she said there was a man passed out in the driveway,” said Young, 61.“So I told my daughter, ‘Go over to him and check.
If you’re a nurse go and check his vitals and she did that.You could hear him saying, ‘Urrggghhh!’“You could smell the booze.
It’s coming through his skin.He kept saying he just needed help getting up,” Young claimed.
“I could hear the guy saying, ‘Just help me up, just help me up.Just get me near the pizza shop.
I’m not hurt.’“When I got here I saw them going down the block.He was hissy-pissy drunk.”Young said two of Morocho’s pals wheeled him to the restaurant — although cops said surveillance video captured Young and another man dropping the dead man off behind the Port Richmond Avenue pizzeria.No one has been charged in the death, with an autopsy pending.
Police said Morocho’s body was found around 6:15 a.m.Sunday, when an employee at the pizza restaurant showed up for work and found him on the ground.The dead man’s roommate told cops he took “a narcotic in powder form” earlier in the night, and dropped him off outside after he found him “unresponsive” because they didn’t want to get in trouble.
Security camera video reviewed by cops showed two people, allegedly including Young, wheeling Morocho to the pizzeria shortly after 2 a.m., according to law enforcement sources.Neighbors said Morocho is a native of Ecuador who only recently moved to the neighborhood — which includes a hiring spot for illegal day laborers, locals told The Post.“The guys across t...