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The crazed gunman who terrorized a Brooklyn neighborhood before being killed in a hail of NYPD bullets was fueled by paranoia that his girlfriend was cheating on him, the shaken woman said yesterday.
During a wild carjacking spree Saturday afternoon that ended when he was gunned down by police, drunken ex-con Victor Gordon fired erratically into the Crown Heights home of Deisha Bennett.
"I loved him," said Bennett, 21, who has a 2-year-old daughter with Gordon, 23. "Other things were eating him inside. This just triggered it."
Bennett said she stormed out of Gordon's Caton Ave. apartment Friday night after he falsely accused her of infidelity.
"We used to have a lot of arguments," said Bennett, a Medgar Evers College student. "He was jealous a lot."
Bennett said she ignored one final call from Gordon at noon Saturday. Moments later, he carjacked a Dodge Charger on St. Pauls Place, pointing a 9-mm. handgun at driver Vance McClendon's chest.
"He said, 'I'm telling you to get the hell out of the car.'"
McClendon, 30, was able to pull his 5-year-old daughter out of the car just before Gordon roared away.
After firing at Bennett's home and wrecking McClendon's car, Gordon wounded the driver of a passing Jeep Cherokee before stealing a livery cab. He crashed that vehicle at Park Place and Albany Ave., where he got into a shootout with cops that brought 135 shots and his death.
Gordon's family blamed Bennett for the bloodshed.
"She was stressing him out, they had a very turbulent relationship," said Gordon's aunt Doris Mears, 45. "He wasn't a trigger-happy young man - she just set him off."
During a wild carjacking spree Saturday afternoon that ended when he was gunned down by police, drunken ex-con Victor Gordon fired erratically into the Crown Heights home of Deisha Bennett.
"I loved him," said Bennett, 21, who has a 2-year-old daughter with Gordon, 23. "Other things were eating him inside. This just triggered it."
Bennett said she stormed out of Gordon's Caton Ave. apartment Friday night after he falsely accused her of infidelity.
"We used to have a lot of arguments," said Bennett, a Medgar Evers College student. "He was jealous a lot."
Bennett said she ignored one final call from Gordon at noon Saturday. Moments later, he carjacked a Dodge Charger on St. Pauls Place, pointing a 9-mm. handgun at driver Vance McClendon's chest.
"He said, 'I'm telling you to get the hell out of the car.'"
McClendon, 30, was able to pull his 5-year-old daughter out of the car just before Gordon roared away.
After firing at Bennett's home and wrecking McClendon's car, Gordon wounded the driver of a passing Jeep Cherokee before stealing a livery cab. He crashed that vehicle at Park Place and Albany Ave., where he got into a shootout with cops that brought 135 shots and his death.
Gordon's family blamed Bennett for the bloodshed.
"She was stressing him out, they had a very turbulent relationship," said Gordon's aunt Doris Mears, 45. "He wasn't a trigger-happy young man - she just set him off."
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