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13th July 2011, 16:30
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This 9-year old boy was coming home from his first day at Day Camp. His parents let him walk home by himself (His home was 6 blocks away.) The boy got lost and didn't know where to go, when a man pulled up to the boy in a car, and 'asked for directions'. Police found blood on the refigerator handle, a knife, and a cutting board.
The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn this morning and police arrested a suspect in the slaying who had the child's severed feet in his freezer, sources told The Post. Police made the gruesome discovery after raiding a Kensington home and arresting 35-year-old Levi Aron, who led them to parts of missing boy Leibby Kletsky's body, stuffed in a red suitcase and hidden in a Dumpster outside an auto repair shop about two miles away, sources said.
Cops said Aron, who works at the Empire State Supply Co. hardware store on McDonald Avenue in Kensington, allegedly suffocated the boy before chopping him up. Police said they also found three knives in a butcher block inside Aron's apartment.A co-worker said Aron is divorced with no kids and acted completely normal at work yesterday. Aron worked as a stock clerk.
"I can't believe this," he said. "He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy."
"I am very shaken up anout this. Our phones have been ringing off the hook all morning. It's very sad," added a store manager.
From CBS local (Warning: Story is very gruesome, detailed, and might not be for all people.):
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a missing Borough Park boy.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind says authorities have recovered the dismembered remains of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.
Police say they have arrested 35-year-old Levi Aron. Police commissioner Ray Kelly said in a news conference Wednesday that police took Aron into custody after he implicated himself in Kletzky’s death.
Kelly says around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, detectives went to Aron’s home in Kensington, Brooklyn at 466 East Second Street where they found part of Kletzky’s body inside a refrigerator.
The other half of Kletzky’s remains were found by detectives in a dumpster in Sunset Park.
The remains in the dumpster were wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a red suitcase.
The medical examiner’s office will determine a cause of death.
“It’s just a horror for every parent,” Hikind said. “I mean it’s just a tragedy today for everyone in New York.”
“There are sick people out there who would do such horrible things to an innocent child,” Hikind said.
Kelly said when investigators arrived at Aron’s home early Wednesday morning, they asked where the boy was and Aron pointed to the kitchen.
There, they found blood on the refrigerator handle and kitchen knives on a cutting board, Kelly said.
A gold car was found nearby, similar to one seen in a surveillance video police uncovered during their hunt for the boy.
The man who was seen walking near the boy in the video is the same man now in custody, chief police spokesman Paul J. Browne said.
They say he lives alone in his apartment in a building shared with his parents. Kelly said Aron has lived there for two years.
Police made the gruesome discovery inside the Kensington home after tracking Aron down using records from a dentist’s office.
Police said investigators looking for Kletzky noticed a man on the video going into a nearby dentist around 5:30 p.m. Monday.
The dentist, who was later found in New Jersey, said the man wasn’t a patient but was paying a bill for a patient there and police were able to find him using those records.
“That this is possible, an innocent 9-year-old is walking the streets, and that there are human beings out there – at least we call them that – who would do this,” Hikind said. “There’s no reason for it, it’s just beyond horror.”
The dumpster was taken away around 6:45am Wednesday by an NYPD crime unit. Police continued to look for evidence under cars and on the sidewalk.
Kletzky was supposed to meet his mother at 5 p.m. Monday at the corner of 13th Avenue and 50th Street after leaving day camp in Brooklyn, but he never showed up. His disappearance prompted an intense search, with much of the orthodox Jewish community he was part of, taking to the streets to hunt for the boy.
Kletzky was just 4-foot-4, with dark hair. He wore black glasses, a striped shirt and was carrying a knapsack.
Two surveillance videos offered possible leads in the disappearance late Tuesday.
One video showed the young boy leaving his day camp, located at 12th Avenue and 44th Street, and walking past his home on 15th Avenue.
A second video, which was released late Tuesday night, showed the boy walking behind another man, according to police. Investigators believe Kletzky may have gotten into the man’s gold-colored sedan.
Since Monday night, volunteers organized by the Flatbush Shomrim — the Jewish community patrols — fanned out from Borough Park looking for the boy.
Kletzky had begged his parents to let him walk home, CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reported. They had given him a note, saying he would not be taking the bus.
At the day camp, people said the children were susceptible to suggestions from strangers.
“He respects everyone…if you would tell him, you yourself were to tell him, ‘I would like you to sit here until I come back’, he would sit down until you come back,” said Jacob Baskal of the Borough Park Shomrim.
Hikind said the boy was the only son of the Kletzky’s five children and said the husband works as a driver for a private car service.
“They were horrible yesterday when the child was not there, hoping that they’ll find him, but now forget it,” Hikind said. “How does a parent live with their little child brutally assaulted, murdered, dismembered?”
Hikind said the parents do not know Aron, who lived about a mile away from the boy.
Stay with CBSNewYork.com for more details on this developing story.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/missing_year_old_klyn_boy_found_SsxgaRkRSOXDdtevuP T2XP
This 9-year old boy was coming home from his first day at Day Camp. His parents let him walk home by himself (His home was 6 blocks away.) The boy got lost and didn't know where to go, when a man pulled up to the boy in a car, and 'asked for directions'. Police found blood on the refigerator handle, a knife, and a cutting board.
The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn this morning and police arrested a suspect in the slaying who had the child's severed feet in his freezer, sources told The Post. Police made the gruesome discovery after raiding a Kensington home and arresting 35-year-old Levi Aron, who led them to parts of missing boy Leibby Kletsky's body, stuffed in a red suitcase and hidden in a Dumpster outside an auto repair shop about two miles away, sources said.
Cops said Aron, who works at the Empire State Supply Co. hardware store on McDonald Avenue in Kensington, allegedly suffocated the boy before chopping him up. Police said they also found three knives in a butcher block inside Aron's apartment.A co-worker said Aron is divorced with no kids and acted completely normal at work yesterday. Aron worked as a stock clerk.
"I can't believe this," he said. "He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy."
"I am very shaken up anout this. Our phones have been ringing off the hook all morning. It's very sad," added a store manager.
From CBS local (Warning: Story is very gruesome, detailed, and might not be for all people.):
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a missing Borough Park boy.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind says authorities have recovered the dismembered remains of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.
Police say they have arrested 35-year-old Levi Aron. Police commissioner Ray Kelly said in a news conference Wednesday that police took Aron into custody after he implicated himself in Kletzky’s death.
Kelly says around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, detectives went to Aron’s home in Kensington, Brooklyn at 466 East Second Street where they found part of Kletzky’s body inside a refrigerator.
The other half of Kletzky’s remains were found by detectives in a dumpster in Sunset Park.
The remains in the dumpster were wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a red suitcase.
The medical examiner’s office will determine a cause of death.
“It’s just a horror for every parent,” Hikind said. “I mean it’s just a tragedy today for everyone in New York.”
“There are sick people out there who would do such horrible things to an innocent child,” Hikind said.
Kelly said when investigators arrived at Aron’s home early Wednesday morning, they asked where the boy was and Aron pointed to the kitchen.
There, they found blood on the refrigerator handle and kitchen knives on a cutting board, Kelly said.
A gold car was found nearby, similar to one seen in a surveillance video police uncovered during their hunt for the boy.
The man who was seen walking near the boy in the video is the same man now in custody, chief police spokesman Paul J. Browne said.
They say he lives alone in his apartment in a building shared with his parents. Kelly said Aron has lived there for two years.
Police made the gruesome discovery inside the Kensington home after tracking Aron down using records from a dentist’s office.
Police said investigators looking for Kletzky noticed a man on the video going into a nearby dentist around 5:30 p.m. Monday.
The dentist, who was later found in New Jersey, said the man wasn’t a patient but was paying a bill for a patient there and police were able to find him using those records.
“That this is possible, an innocent 9-year-old is walking the streets, and that there are human beings out there – at least we call them that – who would do this,” Hikind said. “There’s no reason for it, it’s just beyond horror.”
The dumpster was taken away around 6:45am Wednesday by an NYPD crime unit. Police continued to look for evidence under cars and on the sidewalk.
Kletzky was supposed to meet his mother at 5 p.m. Monday at the corner of 13th Avenue and 50th Street after leaving day camp in Brooklyn, but he never showed up. His disappearance prompted an intense search, with much of the orthodox Jewish community he was part of, taking to the streets to hunt for the boy.
Kletzky was just 4-foot-4, with dark hair. He wore black glasses, a striped shirt and was carrying a knapsack.
Two surveillance videos offered possible leads in the disappearance late Tuesday.
One video showed the young boy leaving his day camp, located at 12th Avenue and 44th Street, and walking past his home on 15th Avenue.
A second video, which was released late Tuesday night, showed the boy walking behind another man, according to police. Investigators believe Kletzky may have gotten into the man’s gold-colored sedan.
Since Monday night, volunteers organized by the Flatbush Shomrim — the Jewish community patrols — fanned out from Borough Park looking for the boy.
Kletzky had begged his parents to let him walk home, CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reported. They had given him a note, saying he would not be taking the bus.
At the day camp, people said the children were susceptible to suggestions from strangers.
“He respects everyone…if you would tell him, you yourself were to tell him, ‘I would like you to sit here until I come back’, he would sit down until you come back,” said Jacob Baskal of the Borough Park Shomrim.
Hikind said the boy was the only son of the Kletzky’s five children and said the husband works as a driver for a private car service.
“They were horrible yesterday when the child was not there, hoping that they’ll find him, but now forget it,” Hikind said. “How does a parent live with their little child brutally assaulted, murdered, dismembered?”
Hikind said the parents do not know Aron, who lived about a mile away from the boy.
Stay with CBSNewYork.com for more details on this developing story.