Elgin Taylor needs help says his mother.
Michael Fuccile was on his way to work when he was randomly and brutally stabbed to death by a psychotic man named Elgin Taylor yesterday. Fuccile was an executive at Merril Lynch in Jersey City and was about a block away from the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station at Liberty State Park when the attacker killed him. He was stabbed in the neck, back and head and was bleeding profusely by one witness’ account. The woman that found him thought he had been hit by a car because of all the blood everywhere…a man by the name of Wendolowski recounted. When Wendolowski saw a man bolting, he immediately took off after him, apprehending him and waiting for the authorities to arrive…Michael Fuccile was a father of three.
Oh man, this is really sad.
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25 Comments
September 6, 2008 at 9:20 am
Put this Mother@#$@$@ to death. He needs to die. Who knows how many people he’s made suffer. End his life, and let us all watch.
September 6, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Oh man. Those are strong words.
This is a very awful occurrence,
I look forward to learning more
case details as they become available.
I hope his family is doing alright.
-Antwan.
September 6, 2008 at 5:56 pm
This mfer needs to be executed or put in prison for life (no parole)and his parents should be arrested for negligence. Fucille had 3 young children and a wife
September 6, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Our family is shocked and saddened by these events. My heart aches for both families of this tragedy. I knew little Elgin since he was a kid and was with him at a family event as recent as a month ago and I truly believe that his medication was the difference. Both his parents are loving hardworking people who tried to help their son..if you want to be angry, be angry at the system that wouldn’t allow this devoted father to get the power and proper assistance he begged for. I am sure if little Elgin was in a treatment center the wife and children of this victim would still have him here today.
September 7, 2008 at 11:50 am
Typical…blame the system.
September 7, 2008 at 9:16 pm
No, I’m angry at Elgin Taylor, the monster who perpetrated this brutal and senseless crime. It’s the idiots like yourself who make excuse after excuse for worthless savages, like Taylor, who make me sick.
September 8, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Walking by the crime scene on that morning, I figured that somebody got popped in a drug-related incident in the area. An not-so-great area on the border of up-and-coming housing development and poverty. There was still a big pool of blood in the middle of the road. A place where I’ve crossed dozens of times over the years to get my lightrail tickets. It could have been me that morning. I was only 1.5 hours later than that poor Fuccile guy. I feel for the family of that man. I also being a father with three young children. Can you really blame the system? At what point does a person have to take responsibility for his actions? According to the attacker’s family, he was not taking his medication. Is that really a valid excuse? He had medication (probably paid by us taxpayers) and he chose not to take it. The system should force him to take it or would that infringe on his “freedom”? In the meantime, we’ve got another broken family and a man who will probably never see jail time for crime.
September 8, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I don’t care how “mentally disturbed” or how “psychotic” a person is deemed. When someone takes another person’s life in this manner, there is no amount of medication or psychological help that this person (Elig Taylor) could get to make him trust worthy enough to be “released” into the public again. I would not waste one penny on him for any kind of help or jail time he might receive. What a waste of a life. He (Taylor) is not worth it, let alone being allowed to live on this earth any longer.
September 9, 2008 at 9:36 am
I woke up sunday morning to read the newspaper and for the very first time i just happen to glance at the obituaries and saw mikes name in this section. I honestly thought for a second that it was a misprint. I have know Mike and his immediate family for years and it tears me up inside that not only does his parents have to burry their own son but his wife and children are now going to grow up without their father. A hard working, selfless & kind person that would put others before himself. I have never seen myself as a person that would ever wish harm on anyone but i firmly believe that you reap what you sew. This psycho should be put in a room with some people that knew mike and close the door behind him and let us be the judge, jury and executioner.
September 9, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hello everyone.
I know this is a hard time for some of you that knew Michael personally, but I feel that you all should also take into consideration the people that knew the Elgin Taylor personally as well. Those people are also losing someone that they cared about and I am sure it is hurtful to read the harsh things that some have posted. Not that I am ridiculing anyone that has posted, it’s not that at all, I just always try to take both sides into consideration.
As the case is still on going I am reluctant to give an opinion. I feel that before I can give one of validity I would need to know all circumstances, from the issues with medication, etc. I mean we live in a country when you are innocent until proven guilty, even if you are found with the murder weapon in hand this still applies. It is set in place to keep us all safe.
I think it’s horrible what happened to Michael, just awful, and it’s things like that that me uneasy about living in big cities.
One thing I do believe is if he is found to be mentally unstable, he should not be put to death. I have always supported that rule, because I think that if anyone were to actually sit down and think about it, they too would agree.
Thank you for commenting.
-Antwan.
September 9, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I knew Elgin personally… he lived in Central Jersey for some time. Nothing can justify what he did because it’s just wrong in every sense, but he does have a legitamate health problem. I was told his father was taking him to get help the night before, but he broke the window of their car and ran away. It’s sad because when he was “normal” shall we say, he was a good person. My condolences to the victim’s family, and to Elgin’s family as well.
September 9, 2008 at 3:34 pm
This is just a really sad turn of events.
Thank you for commenting.
-Antwan.
September 10, 2008 at 10:57 am
To WriterGirl,
I accidentally deleted your comments.
I apologize, I was trying to approve them
seeing as my blog marked them as spam.
Sorry,
-Antwan
September 10, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I don’t know what the answer is to solving problems related to mental illness, but it bothers that all I keep seeing are pictures of the alleged assailant. What about Michael, his wife Nancy and there three children? Nancy and the children will never be the same. As a mom of two young boys around the same age as Mike and Nancy’s kids it scares me everyday my husband heads out for work. We are not safe anywhere.
If Elgin Taylor hadn’t been on meds for two months why wasn’t his doctor, case worker, etc. contacted to intervene? There is not reason why someone who is unstable like Elgin to be running free and doing what he pleases. I hope he does not fall through the cracks of the system and ends up destroying the lives of even more people.
I do not blame Elgin’s family for his mental illness, but unfortunately they needed to be more proactive in managing it since he could not do it for himself.
September 13, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I grew up with the Fuccile Family in the same church community. His parents raised a good person. He worked hard, married and was raising a family. I could write all day about his character. By now, everyoneknows that he was an honorable decent, Christian man. He had his life viciously taken from him. His wife is a wonderful Mom, but make no mistake — his children will remain permanently fractured because of his absense. No one can change that. His 3 year old daughter will have NO MEMORY OF HER FATHER.
Now I am sorry, but I’m sick and tired of feeling sorry for criminals. And mentally ill or not, Elgin Taylor is at this point, a criminal. He is responsible for his actions, regardless. There are people walking all over this earth who battle a mental defect. Mental health imbalances are no one’s fault. His defect is not his fault, BUT IT IS HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO MANAGE IT. He chose not to. After he stabbed someone over and over again, he was coherent and cogniscent enough to run. He should be held accountable just as anyone else would be. Furthermore, I think he should be put to death. Otherwise the public has only two very unfair options: to allow him to remain out on the street where he will kill again, OR to pay for him to remain emprisoned. It’s a privaledge to be free. There are many people with imbalances who accept responsibility for themselves and take their medication. If we can’t be assured that Elgin will take his, knowing what he is capable of — he shouldn’t be permitted to live.
September 20, 2008 at 7:57 am
I found this news out while hanging out with some of my old high school buddies. I was truly schocked because we were friends in junior high and some of high school although I hadn’t heard/seen from him in many years besides one completely random phone call a few years back. He was always a fun loving good guy. Never did I see a violent side about him.
Currenly I work in the field of behavioral health and it is a strange phenomenon that people living in the community; friends, co-workers, store clerks, etc. are struggling with an illness we’re unaware that they have. There is such a strong stigma on mental illness and it’s a shame that events like these can do nothing but strengthen people’s fears.
My heart goes out to the victim’s family and to Elgin’s family. It’s truly a sorrowful occurence and my prayers go out to both families for healing.
October 1, 2008 at 12:10 pm
look man i went to high school with the kid and he was never like this he was a fun nice person who never would have done something like this its actually very sad and a person with such a decease how can you say kill him if that were your child you would not want to see him die its really a shame that this has happened to that man but in the end its also a shame that elgin has this decease and is not the same so why kill him instead try to help him or put him to prison but an eye for an eye is not the answer here he has a problem and needs help so does that mean we should have the right to kill him as well
October 1, 2008 at 5:17 pm
He’s obviously not the same person you all went to school with. I imagine it’s hard to wrap your brain around the memory of a person that was non-violent. But the Elgin Taylor you know is gone — now in his place is a murdering monster. And yes he’s someone’s child, but it doesn’t give him the right to take lives. It’s a fact that mental illness becomes worse with age. He’s no longer a safe human being. He is out of control. He obviously is not capable of self managing his condition. He’s a murderer. He was taking medication. He stopped. His OWN PARENTS couldn’t control him. He wouldn’t let them help him. It’s not good enough to say, “well it’s horrible that this happened” It’s just not good enough. He’s not rehabilitative. This is degenerative. It’s just going to get worse and worse. And we all have to live without someone in our lives, because he wrecklessly lived his. I don’t want him out on the streets, and I don’t want one penny of my money to go toward paying to house, clothe, feed and council him for the rest of his life. There is nothing to fix here. We can’t bring Michael back. And we can’t fix the person who killed him. Someone’s child or not, he needs to leave this earth so we can all be sure he doesn’t kill again.
October 9, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I don’t know what to really say about this matter that I have not already said. I feel we all just need to accept what happened and let due process take it’s course. As citizens of the USA we all have access to these rights and I feel we should allow him to see his day in court and let a judge and jury decide. I don’t think killing him is the right answer here, I mean, it’s doesn’t bring his victim back to life and I don’t think it would make it any easier on the conscience of anyone to know that Michael specifically is gone. I mean, there are quite a few mentally unstable people on this earth, a few some of us may know…this could happen to anyone..
it’s sad and it stinks..
life is hard.
October 10, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Antwan I’m really happy that you’ve provided this posting place so that we can converse and evaluate different ways of thinking. I think that your points are valid especially your position that we do have an increasing level of mentally unstable people on this earth. Blogs like this should beg the question, what do we do with Elgin Taylor and people like him? Life IS hard. These are hard questions and there are hard answers. I don’t want to deprive him of his right to his day in court with a jury. I just want there to be appropriate OPTIONS, FOR that jury. They are not necessarily options that are meant to accommodate Elgin but options that keep the public safe. We have the death penalty for a reason. At what point and for what reasons SHOULD we keep a criminal alive? It’s an extremely valid question and one as citizens that we should discuss and debate.
For example, so far everyone on this posting place that has posted on Elgin’s behalf, have said that he was a nice guy — this was a horrible thing that happened — poor Michael — poor Michaels’family — Elgin is someone’s child — but not one person has offered a viable plan for what to DO with him and people like him — so that we remain safe. With complete respect I say that THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. I am concerned for the public with the two options we have, if the death penalty is excluded:
1. Let him go and remind him to medicate himself? That mindset has gotten one innocent man killed already. The next one could be someone related to YOU.
2. Have you ever read reports on how much it costs for ONE PERSON to be in jail or a year? 5 years? 25 years? A life sentence? The amount of money is obscene! Our prisons are filled. Our country is in economic crisis. And most important — the public is in danger because of his existance and those like him.
At some point we have to practically assess criminals and their crimes with regard to rehabilitative possibilities, expense, space.
Emotionally I’m livid and will be livid for the rest of my life over the senseless completely avoidable death of a very special person.
Intellectually, I’ve returned to this posting place to encourage intelligent debate over what society can do/ needs to do to manage the mentally unstable that are dangerous to the general public, and not one person has engaged…
November 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed that the perp here is black and innocent victim is white. Elgin, you apologists out there, say he is unbalanced, yet he got up that morning and put his clothes on. He wasn’t wearing his pants backwards. His shirt wasn’t inside out. He did not look out of the ordinary in the least. His pic also shows him to be a very physically fit young black male. So he knows the right foods to eat. Unbalanced? After the black male committed his violence on this innocent white male, what did the black male do? He ran! If he was so physiologically unbalanced, why did he run? He ran because he knew what he did was wrong! So obviously he knew right from wrong.
The black male’s pre and post actions to his deadly crime also reveal to us exactly what he intended to do. He brought a knife – because he wanted to kill someone. He selected a white male, not randomly, as the media is portraying this. The community where this happened is an overwhelming black community. A “random” act would most likely then have been carried out against a black. His plan was to lie in wait … and kill a white male, then flee, hoping he would get a way with the murder. This was no “random” act of violence by an unbalanced black man. He planned the murder a white male, and he intended to get away with it.
I do feel for Michael Fuccile family. The black male predator was going to kill a white male that day. Unfortunately, this married father of a young child was the black predators selected target of rage.
Over the last 44 years, since the democratic party forced integration on the white population, the black man in America has murdered more than 425 thousand people, that’s well more than half of all the homicides in America over that stretch of time. The black males represent only about 11% of the total U.S. male population.
More than 85,000 of the black males’ murder victims have been white.
If white males murdered blacks at the same percentage that blacks murder whites over the 44 years since the black race received their remonstrance (i.e. integration into the very race they were labeling as their brutal oppressor), there would be more than 800,000 dead blacks.
I, for one, am getting damn sick and tired of this black-on-white violence. I’m also getting damn sick and tired of filling up America’s prisons with blacks. One out of every three black males in his prime years is under control of our criminal justice system.
I think it’s time to re-evaluate this whole forced integration mess. Too many victims!!!
In the white community, we NEVER bargained for this black male violence when integration was forced upon us. NEVER.
December 19, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I am a caucasian female and I don’t feel that this was a racist crime. There’s a lot more that negates “imbalance” beyond whether or not someone put their pants on the right way. This man is clinically imbalanced. There a lot of chemically imbalanced people that function within the norm in some instances. I just think that the death penalty needs to be applied to this situation for the nature and magnitude of the crime.
March 26, 2009 at 5:45 am
irrespective of the psychotic rage by Taylor, you cannot ignore the fact of his race and gender. Added to the fact that he senselessly killed someone in broad daylight, and was carrying a knife. What was the knife for, if he was “just” mentally disabled?
This useless person murdered a productive community member for no reason–what more do you want? The victim was a college grad from a reputable university–and a CPA. And was a working family man who took time to interact with the community. In other words, how more upstanding do you want than that? If that is not the illusive and inventive American dream of conformity of suburbian life, nothing is.
Also, the US version of the death penality is useless. this has been proven over and over again.
maybe Taylor’s parents should face the same fate his son meritted on the victim.
I have been saying this for over 10 years now: in Hawaii, the locals enact “local justice.” rape a member of their family, and the victims family will attack a member of your family in similar fashion. Thus, locals dont attack locals all that much.
Islam teaches us Westerners–us pathetic, sad, liberal, enlightened, and apologetic Westerners–that the death penality–in their fashion–certainly works.
Here, it depends on who gets killed, and who does the killing. This guy, Taylor, murdered another person. BUT….he wasn’t taking his medications. So….we understand.
Islam does not understand, and does not agree.
You kill him, we kill you.
Needless to say, almost as an afterthought, had the races been reversed, believe you me, Jesse Jackson, “community activists,” and Sharpton (one of my favorites) would have been marching, shouting, and screaming for justice. Shake-down artist.
but in another sense, those guys are good because they are forcing segregation.
We need govt forced integration in this country, because if not, whites would not consort willingly with the underclass.
December 11, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I grew up with the taylor family and I remember elgin very well. He was a good kid. He comes from a very very good loving caring and respectful family. What he did was wrong but he was not in his right state of mind. Reading these comments breaks my heart because (1) a life was lost and (2) a young man who needed help didn’t get it. I know lil elgins family was proactive in him health issues.but this could have happened to anyone. He didn’t ask to be sick. My heart hurts for a lot of reasons. Elgin does not deserve to die he deserves to get help. Now I pray he does people he really was a good kid. People snap for what ever reason beyond there control. If anyone of you sat down with anyone from the taylor family u would see my point. They tried to get help for him. The system wouldn’t allow it.
December 11, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I grew up with the taylor family and I remember elgin very well. He was a good kid. He comes from a very very good loving caring and respectful family. What he did was wrong but he was not in his right state of mind. Reading these comments breaks my heart because (1) a life was lost and (2) a young man who needed help didn’t get it. I know lil elgins family was proactive in him health issues.but this could have happened to anyone. He didn’t ask to be sick. My heart hurts for a lot of reasons. Elgin does not deserve to die he deserves to get help. Now I pray he does people he really was a good kid. People snap for what ever reason beyond there control. If anyone of you sat down with anyone from the taylor family u would see my point. They tried to get help for him. The system wouldn’t allow it.