2 AIDS Victims Die in Double-Suicide Plunge
United Press International
NEW YORK —
Two AIDS victims tied together with a sash from a drapery apparently leaped from a window of their 35th-floor apartment in a double suicide, authorities said Friday.
Charles Villalonga, 42, and Gilbert Rodriguez, 44, were declared dead at the scene. Police said the victims’ doctors said the men had been diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome and were beginning to feel the effects of the usually fatal disease.
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