SUSPECT IN TRIPLE HOMICIDE INDICTED BY GRAND JURY

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson has announced that a grand jury late this
afternoon indicted Rafin Vellon, 38, on murder and weapon possession charges in the death of
Polonio Peralta, 60, during a bloody rampage in which two other people also were killed.

The indictment charges Vellon, of 1029 Hall Place, the Bronx, with one count of Murder
in the 2nd degree and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 4th degree.
Additional murder charges in the deaths of Gloria Valdez, 56, and her son Carl Valdez, 36, are
still pending.

Vellon is accused of murdering Peralta by striking the victim numerous times with a hard
metal barbell on Monday, October 23, 2004 outside the basement apartment on Hall Place where
he resided with the other two victims.

The defendant is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on the
indictment in the Domestic Violence Part at State Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 21,
2006.

Assistant District Attorney David Birnbaum is prosecuting the case.