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The suspects were awaiting arraignment, and it wasn't clear
whether they had attorneys who could comment on the allegations.
Police said Cos Jervis Jonas Ajpuac, 38, and another man were
pummeled with metal pipes and a baseball bat around 7 p.m. Sept.
18, police said. Ajpuac succumbed to his injuries Oct. 2. The
other man, a 42-year-old, survived.
The assailants "just attacked them while they were sleeping,”
store security worker Stephen DeGrasse told the Daily News,
saying he had seen security footage of the beating.
He said the victims and the suspects all frequented the same
ShopRite supermarket to redeem the five-cent deposit on bottles
and cans they had collected.
They were friends, he said, and would drink beer together after
cashing the bottles in.
There was no immediate information from police about what
sparked the attack.
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