News · moment 10 of 22
Dino Tomaselli: The Long Island Bodybuilder Who Shot His Parents
from #281 - Hewlett Harbor Holiday | The Tim Dillon Show · #281
6 min
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Tim and Ben cover the news story of a 29-year-old bodybuilder from Brooklyn accused of shooting his parents on Christmas morning in their $3.2 million Hewlett Harbor home, including a parody Christmas song about it.
- Tim criticizes Ben for lying about COVID while praising Long Island as the greatest place he'll ever visit
- A Long Island bodybuilder named Dino shot both his parents in the face on Christmas morning
- Dino Tomaselli, 29, shot his 65-year-old father in the back and 64-year-old mother in the head at their $3.2 million Hewlett Harbor home
- Tim riffs on the song Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer with a version about Dino shooting his parents
- Tim reflects that family can be trying during holidays, though he's not advocating killing your parents
- Dino supposedly was best friends with his mother, who owned a dance studio with Broadway stars
- When Long Islanders say someone isn't a violent person, it means they're incredibly violent—they're always getting arrested for battery, breaking into ex-girlfriends' apartments, gang wars
- The parents are actually alive and in critical condition, turning the story from tragedy into a potential Hallmark Christmas movie
- The mother was shot in the head and the father in the back, but neither has died as of the current moment
Dino TomissettiLong Island, New YorkBen Avery