NYPD: Brooklyn man befriended, killed 3 women at senior housing facility
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NYC handyman gave bizarre explanations for victims murders
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(Reuters) - A man accused of murdering at least three elderly residents of a senior housing development in New York City over the span of six years was due to appear in a Brooklyn court on Friday.
The New York City Police Department on Thursday announced it had detained Kevin Gavin, 66, in connection with the murders of three women that took place at the Woodson Houses in Brownsville between 2015 and 2021.
Gavin was familiar with many of the elderly residents of the complex, according to law enforcement, and even used to run errands for some of them.
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.