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A Killer Preyed on Older Women. Police Say He Was Their Neighbor.
The police say Kevin Gavin has killed three women since 2015 at the Carter G. Woodson Houses in Brooklyn.
A series of murders since 2015 shook the Carter G. Woodson Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Credit.Juan Arredondo for The New York Times
Jan. 21, 2021
First, a funeral director found a stab wound in the neck of an 82-year-old woman who died in Apartment 6M in 2015. Four years later, the grandson of the 83-year-old woman in 11C found her strangled. Then on Friday, the son of an 78-year-old woman in 6A found her dead with a telephone cord wrapped around her neck.
Troubled by the alarming spike in crime, activist Peter Kerre set up an Instagram page called SafeWalks NYC, designed to provide safe escorts to and from subway stations.
Detectives are said to have long eyed Gavin, but he was never arrested due to lack of evidence.
He is also charged in the 2019 death of the 83-year-old James, discovered dead in her 11th-floor apartment with trauma to her head and torso.
In court documents, prosecutors say he told them he choked 83-year-old Jacolia James and stomped on her neck three times. There is no reasons or excuses that is enough for our family, said Lamarr Crafton, James oldest grandson. This community needs public safety. It needs consistency. It needs to trust the good guys to be here.
Troubled by the alarming spike in crime, activist Peter Kerre set up an Instagram page called SafeWalks NYC, designed to provide safe escorts to and from subway stations.
Detectives are said to have long eyed Gavin, but he was never arrested due to lack of evidence.
He is also charged in the 2019 death of the 83-year-old James, discovered dead in her 11th-floor apartment with trauma to her head and torso.
In court documents, prosecutors say he told them he choked 83-year-old Jacolia James and stomped on her neck three times. There is no reasons or excuses that is enough for our family, said Lamarr Crafton, James oldest grandson. This community needs public safety. It needs consistency. It needs to trust the good guys to be here.