Man arrested in Springettsbury Township double murder: police

(This story has been updated to add new information.)

Police have charged a York man with beating a man and a woman to death with a crowbar at a Springettsbury Township boarding house Tuesday night, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.

Police charged 53-year-old Rangel Vangas with the double murder of Randy Zink and Tammy Quiel, who lived at the guesthouse with the suspect, the complaint said.

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Officers responded to the 3200 block of Eastern Boulevard Tuesday evening after a caller reported to emergency services that a man had struck a woman with what appeared to be a bat, according to the complaint written by township Detective Tessa Miller. Officers attempted life-saving measures on both unresponsive victims, but were unsuccessful.

According to the criminal complaint, zinc was found in the kitchen of the guesthouse. At first, the officer who found him believed he had been shot “due to the severe injuries” to his head and the pool of blood around his head, Miller wrote in the complaint.

Because the original caller described a man hitting a woman, officers went through the house, Miller wrote. On the second floor, they saw a pool of blood outside the door to room number 5, Vangas’ room. The caller came into the hallway and told an officer that the woman had been dragged into room number 5.

When officers opened the door, Miller wrote, they saw Vangas standing in the middle of the room.

Quiel lay naked on a couch “with severe injuries to his head” resting in a pool of blood, Miller wrote. One of the officers saw “Quiel’s chest rise and fall a few times, but she was unresponsive.”

A large socket wrench or crowbar covered in blood lay on the couch, along with a knife, Miller wrote. The knife was clean.

Vangas was read his Miranda rights and Vangas told an officer that Zink and Quiel had been harassing him.

“I gave it to him,” Vangas told the officer, the complaint states. “I beat him up.”

The officer asked him what he hit the victims with, and Vangas just said, “Yeah, let’s go, man. Let’s go, there’s no point in me being here. I want to go.”

The officer asked Vangas what he did to the female victim and he said, “I beat her up (using profanity).”

He later told police that he hit both victims with a crowbar.

Vangas was taken to the police station and told investigators that he had moved into the boarding house last year. He told them that he had known Quiel for about five years and that they had been “friends with benefits” over the years, Miller wrote.

He told police he didn’t get along with Zink, whom he described as a “bully and drug dealer,” Miller wrote.

About a month and a half ago, Miller wrote, Vangas and Quiel had an argument and she began spending time with Zink, an act Vangas believed was done to annoy him.

He told detectives that Zink and Quiel made fun of him and called him names. He believed “they were ganging up on him,” Miller wrote.

On Tuesday evening, Vangas told investigators that he got into an altercation with Zink and Quiel near the front door of the building. Quiel was holding a knife and threatening to stab him, Miller wrote, while Zink stood behind him. He thought they were trying to lock him up so Zink could grab him while Quiel stabbed him.

Vangas escaped and went to his room to grab a crowbar “to protect himself,” Miller wrote. He then went into the kitchen, confronted Zink and told him to leave him alone. He told investigators that Zink grabbed his clothes and pushed him against the wall, “which scared Vanga,” Miller wrote. He was also afraid because the kitchen was “very dark,” he told investigators. He thought zinc would kill him, Miller wrote.

Vangas then hit Zink with the crowbar.

“I just gave it to him,” he told investigators, “and I gave it to him, and I gave it some more until he stopped moving. As long as he was moving, I thought I was in danger, and so was he. “I’m going to hurt myself, so that was pretty much it.”

Vangas told investigators he then went to the second floor “to tell Quiel to leave him alone,” Miller wrote. As he climbed the stairs, he told investigators, he saw Quiel exit the bathroom with a knife.

“When I saw the knife,” he told investigators, “I just gave it to her too because I already knew that was the intention. She wanted to kill me and she said so. She said it out loud and it was a joke. It was funny.

He told investigators: “As soon as I hit her, I dragged her into the room and, um, I grabbed her, ripped her clothes and just kept shaking her (while saying, ‘Why the hell are you trying to hurt me?’) and what the (expletive)?”

He said: “I can’t even remember what else I did because my head was going around in circles. I just wanted her to stop, but she still wouldn’t stop even when I hit her with that thing. I still didn’t stop her, dude.

Residents describe the crime

One resident, James Owens, who has lived in the home for about a year, said his girlfriend woke him shortly after 10 p.m. after she was awakened by a noise that sounded like someone dribbling a basketball. Owens investigated and saw the male victim lying on the ground.

“I opened the door and saw (the male victim) lying on the floor bleeding,” Owens said. “He was still alive. He was still breathing and bubbling.”

Owens called 911, his phone showing he made the call at 10:21 p.m. He said the 911 dispatcher told him that someone else had also reported the crime and that police were on their way.

Another resident, Robert Rose, who has lived in the home for about two years, said he was going to the bathroom. As he went downstairs, he saw Vangas in police custody, handcuffed.

“I didn’t know what was going on,” Rose said.

He said Vangas turned to him and said: “The harassment wouldn’t stop, so I put a stop to it.”

Rose said, “And he did.”

The guesthouse at the intersection of Eastern Boulevard and Edgewood Road has 14 rooms for rent, according to residents. The residents get along, they said.

And Rose said he got along with Vangas.

“I had dinner with him,” Rose said. “He seemed like a pretty nice guy. I didn’t see that coming.”

According to the police, the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information can contact Springettsbury Township Police at (717) 757-3525 or lead investigator, Detective Tessa Miller, at [email protected].

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