Home Depot Worker Threatens Copycat Attack at Store Where Man Was Murdered
(DNAINFO) Noah Horowitz | December 22, 2015 — An employee of a Chelsea Home Depot threatened to shoot up the store with automatic weapons and specifically named the gunman who murdered a manager at the store earlier this year as his inspiration, according to police.
Police arrested Rafael Borbon, 31, on Dec. 19, a day after he allegedly told a coworker that he planned to attack the store at 40 W. 23rd St. with an AK-47 and a handgun, according to a criminal complaint.
Borbon told the woman that he “would like to leave how Calvin did,” referring to Calvin Esdaile, an employee who on Jan. 22 fatally shot his manager at the store before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.