A Massachusetts man was kidnapped and driven all the way to The Bronx, where he was executed on a rooftop, law enforcement sources said Monday.
NYPD patrol cops discovered the body of Joshua Bressette, 25, of North Adams, Mass., with three bullet wounds to the head and one to the back atop the Gun Hill Houses at 10 p.m. May 8, according to authorities.
Massachusetts police sources said Bressette was grabbed by his abductors in the parking lot of a supermarket in North Adams and tossed inside a car bound for New York City.
“It appears as if Josh had no intention of going to The Bronx or New York City at all,” one law enforcement source said. “All signs point to him being forced against his will into a car, where he was brought to the city to be executed.”
Bressette’s mother, Kenna Waterman, filed a missing person report May 7 with the North Adams Police Department. Massachusetts State Police and the NYPD are now spearheading the investigation to find the killers.
The probe was initially hampered because investigators couldn’t identify the body.
“He wasn’t found with any ID on him, which is common in these types of kidnappings that lead to murders,” the law enforcement source said. “They had to ID him through the public by his tattoos. By the time we knew who (Bressette) was, his shooters were long gone.”
Bressette has one prior arrest in February in western Massachusetts for drug possession with intent to distribute.