Like a scene from a gangster movie, a man and a woman were found shot to death execution style in the front seats of a car that was left parked outside of a Queens Cemetery, cops said.
The balding male victim, identified as Lenny Archipolo, 47, was left strapped into the drivers seat of the 1997 Chevy Lumina, while the slain woman was next to him in the passenger seat, slumped over on the door and her hair flowing out of the open window.
Archipolo has 8 prior arrests, with 5 sealed. One was for rape, another for robbery and a third for drugs. He was single.
Both had single gunshot wounds to the backs of their heads, police sources said.
“[They were] motionless. The man’s head was turned on one side kind of limp, ashy color, off color. The hair covered the women’s face, [she was] slumped to the left side,” said Stephen Chee, 73, a retired nurse who made the 911 call.
“They guy was shot in the back of his head, the guy had blood on the front of his shirt . . . I’m shocked at the way they died.”
A family friend said Archipolo had a girlfriend whose jealous ex-boyfriend was getting out of prison soon and that he had been making threats, possibly against Archipolo and his girlfriend.
The gruesome scene outside Linden Hill Cemetery at Willoughby and Woodward avenues in Ridgewood was discovered by cops after a 911 call came in at 10:08 p.m. this morning.
The maroon car, which had New York plate and was found still running with its lights on. It was being scoured by detectives this after noon.
There were no suspects, but sources said that investigators are treating the killing as a double homicide, and not a murder suicide.
Cops thought a camera on a nearby home had captured a video of the killer walking away from the car, but they later found that the video was no good. The camera was pointed in the wrong direction.