A January 7, 1995 dispute over a loan ended in a massacre at an apartment in the College Point neighborhood of Queens, New York. Seventeen-year-old Paola Andrea Lopez was one of six people killed that day; the victims included her 15-year-old sister Carla Lopez and their 42-year-old mother Maria Ramirez. Two men, identified as Jose Angulo and Victor Rodriguez, entered the home armed with a silenced 9mm pistol and first shot Alex DeJesus and his cousin Pablo Villanueva Calle Soto. The attackers then bound the women and girls; Paola, her mother, her sister and a 16-year-old family friend, Melinda Wynns, were shot and stabbed to death.

One intended victim survived despite being shot and having her throat cut and was able to alert authorities. Jose Angulo and Victor Rodriguez were captured, tried and convicted; both were sentenced to 170 years in prison without parole.