Police have arrested and charged 34-year old Jerry Brown after an ax murdering rampage.
The scene of the crime as detailed by the New York Post is absolutely horrific. The brutal ax attack left one woman dead and another fighting for her life at the moment. Brown has been charged with murder and attempted murder after allegedly hacking his girlfriend, Angela Valle, and her pregnant friend Savannah Rivera, in a Brooklyn, New York apartment building.
Here are the details on the murder and why his girlfriend bragged about him with the nickname “Mr. 187”.
A young woman was hacked to death and another seriously hurt by an ax-swinging maniac who turned a Brooklyn apartment into a scene out of an ’80s slasher flick — carnage that unfolded early Saturday within earshot of a 4-year-old girl in a back bedroom, sources told The Post. Police early Sunday charged the surviving woman’s ex-boyfriend, Jerry Brown, 34, with murder, attempted murder and weapons possession.
The suspect called himself “Grim Creepa” in social media, law enforcement sources confirmed. Chillingly, just last month she’d referred to him affectionately on Facebook as “Mr. 187″ — street slang for a murderer. “We believe he had some sort of a relationship with both — he knew both victims,” said Brooklyn North’s commanding officer, Deputy Chief Michael M. Kemper. “This was a brutal, a terrible, vicious, vicious attack. Both victims suffered multiple deep, deep lacerations.”
The savagery came to light at 1:30 a.m. when blood-drenched Angela Valle, 21, called an Uber to 811 Flushing Ave. in the Bushwick Houses, police sources told The Post. Valle suffered a life-threatening blade chop to the back of her head, along with gashes to her chest, arms, stomach and throat, sources said — and although she asked to be driven to the hospital, the Uber driver called 911.She was able to tell medics two things before losing consciousness, the sources said.
One was that her ex-boyfriend had attacked her and her friend, who was still inside the eighth-floor apartment, the sources told The Post.The other was that her little girl, Aliana, was also inside. Police rushed to the apartment and discovered a horrific scene. A woman was lying on the living-room floor. She had been partially decapitated. Some of her fingers were severed. There were more stab wounds throughout her head and body. Police identified her as Savannah Rivera, 20. The young mother — who had a 3-year-old son, Sebastian, and who was two months pregnant — was pronounced dead at the scene.
Valle’s daughter was found asleep and unharmed in a back bedroom, the sources said. The girl was taken to Woodhull Medical Center for evaluation, police said. She was later moved to a “private residence” and was in the care of relatives, police said.Investigators later found what they believed to be the murder weapon: an ax with a long, yellow fiberglass handle that had been tossed into a trash compactor in the building, the sources said.
Reached by WPIX/Channel 11 News, the boyfriend, who asked to be called “Jerry,” said he suffers from mental illness, and began sobbing — and asked if his girlfriend was “OK,” the station reported. Told she was fighting for her life, he continued crying, and while he did not admit to any violence, he added, “I will turn myself in. I will call police myself.”
The Mintcraft-brand ax recovered by police was purchased at nearby Florama Hardware for $39.98, store employees told The Post. “The cops showed me a picture they took of it, and it is our price tag,” said worker Udi Amrussi, 39 Shown a Facebook photo of Brown by a Post reporter, worker Anthony Armogan, 32, said the pic was almost certainly that of a man who had asked to buy the same ax about two weeks ago. “He asked if there is a cheaper one,” Armogan said. “Then he asked if we can sharpen it for him. I said it’s sharp enough as it is.”
Valle is currently in serious condition at Elmhurst Hospital Center after suffering “severe head trauma” according to police. Meanwhile Jerry Brown has admitted to being at the scene of the murder, but has not confessed to the actual crime.
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