News: Update for Boy Murdered in Brooklyn
(Long Island, N.Y.) A thirty-five-year-old man was charged with killing a nine-year-old boy from Borough Park, Brooklyn. The man was charged Wednesday night with second-degree murder and confessed to the gruesome crime. The boy was last seen on surveillance video getting into the man’s 1990 brown Honda Accord.
Evidence showed that the boy struggled for his life, and marks were found on the killer’s arms and wrists. Reports stated that the boy was suffocated with a bath towel. In his written confession the killer admitted he panicked when seeing posters of the missing boy and proceeded to dispose of the body.
Reports also stated that the boy’s feet were found in a Ziploc bag inside the killer’s freezer within the attic apartment above his parents’ home. One source described the killer as being mentally slow and another claimed that he made an apology for all the hurt that he caused. The killer’s videotaped confession was deemed unemotional, and many claimed that he caused shock within the entire community.
Thousands of people attended the boy’s funeral on Wednesday night and words of grief were spoken by Mayor Bloomberg. The suspect also stated in his confession that he offered to give the boy a lift to the Jewish bookstore and invited him to a wedding in upstate New York. He also claimed that they returned late, yet there is no evidence that the boy attended the wedding with the killer.
The killer also claimed that he intended to bring the boy back to his house the next day. He confessed to making him a tuna sandwich before suffocating him. He stated that the boy fought back a little, and investigators found indications that he had been tied with a rope. There is no evidence that the boy was sexually molested prior to his death.
Police and authorities on the case have reason to believe that the killer’s statement isn’t entirely accurate. There were over five-hundred people at the wedding the killer attended, including between thirty and forty children. Nonetheless, investigators believe that the boy was killed on Monday, and therefore not in attendance among the wedding guests.
In addition to a charge for urination in public, the killer received an order of protection from his ex-wife during their divorce in 2007. The order of protection was later dropped, but detectives on the case are looking into reports that stated he may have tried to lure another boy into his car at an earlier time. The boy’s mother claimed that she thought the killer was being friendly when he offered the boy a lift.
