Thursday, July 14, 2011

Police have charged an Orthodox Jewish man with murder after officers found human remains in the man's refrigerator and a trash bin

Authorities believe that the remains are those of a missing 8-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy. Police say that the 35-year-old Jewish suspect made statements implicating himself in the death of Leiby Kleztky, a member of the close-knit Orthodox Jewish community in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. At a news conference, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly identified the suspect as Levi Aron. Kelly said that detectives found the remains in a freezer at the Aron's third-floor attic apartment and in a trash bin more than two miles away, wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase. Kleztky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but became lost and asked the suspect for directions, Kelly said. Surveillance video showed Aron entering a dentist's office while Kleztky waited for him across the street for seven minutes. Police were able confirm the suspect's identity through the dental office's records. Police showed up at Aron's residence and asked him about Kleztky's whereabouts. The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle. Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives. Some of the remains were in the freezer and others were in the trash bin two and a half miles away. Aron, a clerk at a maintenance supply company, did not appear to have known Kleztky. His only known criminal summons was for urinating in public in 2010. Statements made by the suspect indicated that he kidnapped Kleztky and, as a neighborhood search for the boy intensified, panicked and killed him. Aron is a member of the Orthodox Jewish community in the neighboring area of Kensington, said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn. "We're all in shock," Hikind said of the people in his district. "What kind of people are out there that are capable of creating these dastardly acts?"

3 comments:

rjp said...

A circumcision spot check that went bad?

Rich said...

One less Jew in the world. Is this a bad thing?

Malcolm said...

I'm just glad the kid wasn't a white gentile.