Philip Panzica (27) was shot and killed in a carjacking
Published: Apr 01, 2016 @ 8:22 PM

Philip Panzica (27)
Date: Mar 19, 2016
Cause of Death: Shot
Location: Houston, TX
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A Texas man who earned national notoriety for allegedly having sex on a Ferris wheel in Las Vegas last month was slain in front of his fiancée during a Saturday morning carjacking, police said.
Philip Panzica left the Vivid Live strip club in Houston, where his bride-to-be Mistie Bozant works, in the early morning, according to the Houston Chronicle.They got into a car with Bryan Watts and Aaron Jones. As Panzica drove the four, Watts told him, "You need to come clean," and shot him several times with a handgun around 5:15 a.m., KTRK reported.
Watts and Jones then dumped Panzica's body on the side of the road, told Bozant to get out, and drove away with her cash, police said. When officers caught up to them, Watts confessed to the killing. He and Jones are now jailed on capital murder charges.
Panzica's violent demise comes just weeks after he was caught doing the deed with a woman on the High Roller Ferris wheel— the same day he was set to marry Bozant, who was pregnant with another man's baby.
Panzica, 27, and Chloe Scordianos, 21, of Long Island, were arrested on suspicion of the wild sex stunt next to the Linq Hotel.
Scordianos told the Daily News she hadn't heard from Panzica since their mid-air mingling.
"I haven't spoken a word with him," she said Monday.
"I didn't even add him on Facebook. There was so much drama, I usually just try to keep drama out of my life. It's funny how that just comes to me."
She said she only learned of Panzica's death an hour before The News called her.
"It just really creeps me out," said the 21-year-old mother of one.
"I didn't know him, but no one that I've ever been with has died before."
She said she met Panzica on the Las Vegas Strip shortly before they were caught in their Ferris wheel fling.
"It's not usual for me," she said about the one-day stand.
"It was just my 21st birthday and I was just having a good time."
Panzica's attorney Bennair Bateman told the News his client intended to take a plea offer to reduce his felony sex charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Panzica was set to enter a written plea April 25.
Bateman said he believes the shooting had nothing to do with the Ferris wheel fracas.
A GoFundMe page shared by one of Panzica's relatives said he had a 3-year-old son.
Hisfiancée could not be reached for comment.
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