NY Post
April 3, 2015
The father of a murdered Bronx shelter manager said on Friday his daughter might still be alive if city officials listened to her pleas for added security at the troubled facility.
“My daughter was fighting for more security at work,” Ana Charle’s tearful dad, Carlos, 74, told The Post. “Had there been extra security before, perhaps she would still be alive today.”
Carlos Charle said his 36-year-old daughter, who was born in Spain, was completely selfless and poured her heart into her work.
“She gave her life to others and now, after her death, she got what she was fighting for,” he said, noting that the city had beefed up safety measures at the Project Renewal facility where his daughter Ana worked.
West Spruill, a career criminal who lived in Charle’s facility until January and who was infatuated with her, has been charged with her Monday murder.
Prosecutors said the lustful Spruill stalked Charle at the Wakefield facility and gunned her down when she fought off his rape attempt.
He had been waiting by her car with her licence-plate number and wrist ties, sources have said.