Brooklyn, NY – NYPD: Man Implicated Self; No Relation To Family

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    Brooklyn, NY – The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn and police this morning arrested a suspect in the slaying — who had the child’s severed feet in his freezer, sources told The Post.

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    Police made the gruesome discovery after raiding a Kensington home and arresting the 35-year-old suspect, who led them to parts of missing boy Leibby Kletsky’s body, stuffed in a suitcase and hidden in a Dumpster outside an auto repair shop about two miles away, sources said.
    Police said they found three knives in a butcher block inside the suspect’s apartment.

    The suspect was taken into custody at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday at his home on East Second Street in the Kensington section of Brooklyn, and NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne said that during questioning, the man “made statements implicating himself” in the death of Leibby.

    It was a tragic end to the “angelic” 9-year-old, who disappeared Monday afternoon after getting lost while walking alone for the first time from his Borough Park day camp and following a man down a busy street, sparking a massive search.

    “There are no words, just no words, to describe the sense of what happened here,” said State Assemblyman Dov Hikind in an interview this morning.
    Police did not release the name of the suspect, but sources said they tracked him down by tracing credit card transactions and video surveillance that showed the boy walking behind a bearded man on 45th Street and Dahill Road and possibly getting into a gold-colored car.

    Witnesses who saw police raid the suspect’s home at E. 2nd St. and Avenue C recognized the handcuffed, bearded man from surveillance videos. A gold-colored car was also found at the residence, and investigators were seen going over the vehicle inch by inch.

    “I’m shocked,” said Rosso Safia, 23, owner of the Park Slope Auto Center. “There’s a little kid in the dumpster we use. I have a little girl of my own. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to us.”

    Safia said the store put it’s garbage out around 6:30 last night and that the dumpster is emptied some time between midnight and 3 a.m. He said police told him the dumpster was empty when the boy’s body was discovered.

    “When they pick up the garbage they leave the plastic top open so anyone could have tossed it in.”

    Kletsky was last seen on surveillance video around 45th Street and Dahill Road walking behind a bearded man in a white shirt and dark pants.
    “The boy is standing alone at some point. The male crosses the street in his direction, and the boy follows him on Dahill Road,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, adding that it’s unclear whether the pair exchanged words.

    Police have not given a motive for the crime.

    “There is no indication at this time that the victim was known to the suspect previously,” Browne said in a statement released Wednesday morning.

    “Before establishing his identity, detectives had observed the suspect in a video recorded at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, where he was seen entering a dentist’s office on 18th Avenue in Brooklyn,” Browne said. “Detectives located one of the dentists, who worked there at his home in New Jersey late last night, and established that the suspect had been in the dentist’s office on Monday to pay a bill.”

    Police said that, with the assistance of a receptionist and another dentist associated with the practice, detectives tracked down records, found the name and address of the suspect, then went to his home — where he was arrested.


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    Ploini
    Ploini
    12 years ago

    BDE – oy heilige bashefer, send Moshiach already!

    roshyeshiva
    roshyeshiva
    12 years ago

    BDE. ! SO SAD. UNBELIVEL. . . . .

    AVERAGE-DUDE
    AVERAGE-DUDE
    12 years ago

    BD’E I Can’t handle this!!!
    May hashem give strength to his family and friends!! Oh vey!

    njmom
    njmom
    12 years ago

    what sick animal did this to a little kid?????? hashem yinkom damo… my heart is breaking for his poor family. it’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

    12 years ago

    BDE. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and klal yisrael. So sad.

    estherl
    estherl
    12 years ago

    This is horrific. The poor little boy. Can you please post the details of where the funeral will be and when – I would like to attend.

    Elazar
    Elazar
    12 years ago

    BDH

    No words…

    pupa1
    pupa1
    12 years ago

    Child was found on E2 between Ave C and courtelyou Rd

    7825943
    7825943
    12 years ago

    I am crying chiles. Going up he was found with missing body parts

    12 years ago

    BDE. I have no words to express my grief. Not only is this a tragedy for his family, but for Klal Yisroel. I can only hope that eventually his parents can find some joy in their memories of Leiby. Now, let NYPD find the monster that did this – and may he accidentally fall down several sets of concrete steps on this way into custody – and save the state the cost of a trial. Oy mamele, what has this world come to?

    Ploini
    Ploini
    12 years ago

    Nkom nikmas dam avodechu!

    12 years ago

    To the VIN editors: Except for the item that I am commenting on, could you please remove the other 10 storylines about this tragedy. It is too painful to see all the details of the search – it is too late now. Please.

    12 years ago

    Dov Hikind implied the murderers are Jews. Stop the loshen hora garbage. Name every abuser and molester and post pictures. This is a community issue and we must stop hiding behind “frumkeit.”

    12 years ago

    THIS IS A TRAGEDY FOR ALL KLAL YISROEL. RABONIM IN TRI STATE AREA SOULD CALL FOR A BITUL MELUCHA AND TORAH. WE SHOULD COME TO LEVAYE IN THE 1000’S SHOW THE RIBONO AND THE WORLD THAT WE ARE UNITED AND WE ARE ALL CARING FELLOW JEWS.

    7825943
    7825943
    12 years ago

    זיי האבן באקומען א טיפ אז די גאלדענע סאדען איז גיווען נעכטן ביי א סעווען עלעווען סטאר און קאני איילענד עקטן זייער סאספישעס! ער האט גיפארקט ביי די סעווען עלעווען נישט ביי די גיווענליכע פארקינג פלעצער! כאטשיג ס’איז גיווען גענוג פארקינג פלעצער!

    עס האט גענומען אפאר שעה ווילאנג זיי האבן אנגענומען דעם טיפ ערענסט, ווי נאר זיי האבן נאכגעקוקט די סורוועילינס פון די קעמרע האט זיך די זאך אנגיהויבן רירן, צושויער וואס האבן גיזעהן די עף בי איי ארויס קומען פון די הויז פארציילן אז זיי האבן געוויינט ווען זיי זענען ארויס געקומען!! און איין אגענט האט זיך אנגערופן:
    I don’t understand why he needed to kill him!!

    אבער איין זאך איז זיכער אז די אלע וואלונטירן וואס האבן ארויס גיהאלפן קענען זיך שטארקן מיט דעם אז מען האט גיטראפן די באדי, ווייל שטעלט איך פאהר ווי אזוי מיר וואלטן אויס געקוקט חלילה ווען מען טרעפט ווען נישט דעם קערפער! און די קינד בלייבט ווען א מיסטעריע!!

    חזק ואמץ!

    12 years ago

    what a tragic and awful outcome.BDE may the family be comforted .one cannot imagine the pain.beyond all….

    12 years ago

    What will I tell my kids when they ask me in few min when they wake up: “mommy what happend did they find him”???? (maybe If I tell them truth they will realize what I mean”no strangers”)

    Aussie
    Aussie
    12 years ago

    Baruch Dayan Emes. I hope the family somehow finds peace.

    I hope these m

    HBShmoe
    HBShmoe
    12 years ago

    The only (albeit tiny) consolation in reading of this catastrophe is that klal Yisroel (if the comments hear are an accurate sampling) are joining to feel and share the grief. Absent are the usual accusations and condemnations and finger-pointing.
    Oh great Dayan Haemes, how many more kedoshim much we bear before You send Moshiach?!

    Aussie
    Aussie
    12 years ago

    Baruch Dayan Emes. I hope the family somehow finds peace.

    I hope the monster(s) that are responsible for this terrible terrible tragedy are swiftly brought to justice, and I DO NOT mean by being placed in a jail cell.

    12 years ago

    The murderer admitted it, it was on the radio. This is when lynching sounds good.

    SHMOOSER
    SHMOOSER
    12 years ago

    BDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    there are no words that will make the situation better NEBECH
    especially when you are involved like the thousands of volunteers, you take your time day and night you feel a connection you take it personnel my heart goes out to the family and friends

    T.N.T.B.H.

    airtravelar
    airtravelar
    12 years ago

    I think fbi should take this Mr. Lavy (wearing a dachik cap with a long beard and yarmeka as seen on the video 18xDahill) to a juge now he should be sentenced to death and they should kill him now. He doesn’t desrve 1 more minute here. Let all pray to god that this is the last chiled melestration in our community. T.N.Z.B.H. Light a candle for him

    Monseyer
    Monseyer
    12 years ago

    Any motives?

    shosh
    shosh
    12 years ago

    When my boys were little they looked like Leibby .
    We bring them up with midos, with derech eretz. They learn to trust, in order to love; but the other side of the coin is when do we teach them to distrust.
    My heart goes out to his family.
    My heart is breaking.

    12 years ago

    what can anyone say? How can we go about our normal routines today?

    VIN, please post Levaya time & location.

    12 years ago

    Bde
    This neshuma has a big zechos for being able to bring so many yidden together as one. Unfortunately the ending is not the one we were davenning for. Should we never have to hear any stories like ever again

    KACH613
    KACH613
    12 years ago

    May Hashem take nikama soon.

    chanief
    chanief
    12 years ago

    This is a horrible tragedy. My heart is broken for this family and all families of missing / dead children.

    To #18 , 27 etc. An alternative to “no strangers” is to teach children that if they are lost or need help they should look for a woman with children and approach her for help, or a woman alone if there are none with children around. No strangers EVER can leave a child with no options if they accidentally get lost. It’s essential that children have a way to get help if they need it.

    plainialmaini
    plainialmaini
    12 years ago

    1010 wins said the address was 466 east 2nd. A google search indicated that this address is used for a business called schwartzy’s windshield. does anyone have details?

    Ploini
    Ploini
    12 years ago

    CCTV won’t help, it can only investigate things after the murder has happened.
    I don’t see anything serious we can do to stop this, besides teaching our kids NO STRANGERS means NO STRANGERS, don’t talk even one word to them.
    We live in an imperfect and cruel world, a little tehilim, try to be ehrlich, come to shul and daven, stay away of machlokos and ask hashem he should protect u and ur family.

    bpmommy
    bpmommy
    12 years ago

    i have so many questions but i know i will never get answers. i am speechless,shaken to the core and sick to my stomach. our tefillos did not go to waste,it helped find the little neshume so he can be brought to his final resting place. i cant imagine the horror and fear he faced knowing he will be gone from his family forever. only hashem knows why klal yisroel and his family needs to go through this gutwrenching heartbreak. this heartless monster murdered a heilige neshume and it kills him inside knowing how we all united to find him. uvini shebashumayim…help his parents and family find a nechama…give them strength to go on…comfort them…help them get through this…they need you..you are the only one that we turn to for help. you are our father and you love us but we cant take this pain!! hamokem yenachem eschem, baruch dayan huemes…may the family and klal yisroel only have simcha. all of us need to hug our children a little tighter today and tell them we love them. to all of you that did all you could….only hashem can repay your for your devotion,heart,tefillos,time and money and in this zechus may we never ever face any tragedy ever!

    plainialmaini
    plainialmaini
    12 years ago

    1010 wins said the address was 466 east 2nd street. a google search connects this to ‘schwartzy’s windshield’.

    chasidisheshtipers
    chasidisheshtipers
    12 years ago

    ye ye nuchem is right!!! May we only hear good news from now.

    12 years ago

    “BDE” MY HEART   TEARS GO OUT TO THE CHASHUVER AND SWEET FAMILY AND KLAL YISROEL MAY HASHEM CONSOLE YOU AND MAY YOU KNOW ONLY SIMCHOS AND NO SORROW FOREVER!
    LEIBY’S PURE NESHAMA WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM US   SUCH A YOUNG AGE, HIS SMILE AND HIS HEILIGKEIT COULD BE FELT BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM AND ALL OTHERS, HE IS IN HASHEMS EMBRACE NOW, MAY HE BE A MEILITZ YOSHER FOR HIS PARENTS SIBLINGS AND ALL OF HIS FAMILY KLAL YISROEL, LET US ALL BE MEKABEL AN EXTRA TAKANA FOR THE ZECHUS OF LEIBY
    & MAY HASHEM HAVE RACHMONES ON HIS TAYERA KINDERLACH AND SEND A QUICK YESHUA AND MOSHIACH NOW I WAS JUST ONE OF THE MANY VOLUNTEERS WHO CAME TOGETHER TO HELP FIND A MISSING BROTHER WHAT A HUGE !!!!! KIDDUSH HASHEM, THE ACHDUS AND LOVE WE SHOWED FOR KLAL YISROEL & HASHEM, THERE WERE LITVAKS AND CHASSIDIM ASHKENAZ AND SEFARDIM MODERN & YESHIVISH FRUM & NON FRUM IT WAS TRULY A NACHAS & I’M PROUD TO BE PART OF THIS HOLY FAMILY A SPECIAL YASHER KOACH & THANKS TO THE NYPD & CAPTAIN FOX AND ALL OTHER NYD OFFICERS FOR THIER TIRELESS HELP ALSO TO HATZALAH AND SHOMRIM & ALL OTHERS WHO PITCHED IN, A SPECIAL THANKS TO BRIAN BRIAR & ALL THOSE WHO HELPED HIM,HAMOKOM YENACHEM ESCHEM BSOCH SHAR AVEILAY TZION VYERUSHALAYIM

    abadsa1
    abadsa1
    12 years ago

    Lets hope this wasn’t a known molester from the community protected by various ‘leaders’…..

    shredready
    shredready
    12 years ago

    if the person was a Jew how do we know he was a stranger to leiby
    maybe he knew him

    12 years ago

    “Hikind said the suspected killer is Jewish.”

    DEATH PENALTY for this/these dogs. Expose every molester…I don’t care who he (or she) may be, what the yichus is & how much Tzedaka they give. We showed incredible Achdus in searching for Leiby A”H, now let’s show the same Achdus to protect our children. Rabbonim & family members must stop hiding these animals.

    When the pain starts to recede, the anger rises up. Let’s channel it to make a “Leiby’s Law” in the frum veldt & do something about the Mondrowitzes & Kolkos etc who lurk & prey (not pray) among us.

    12 years ago

    to my fellow jews.
    my condolences to all. this is our tragedy too. we all feel the pain. we all searched together in the sweltering heat. we all smashed into backseats of cars, 4 to 5 people in the back at times, to get to our “routes” to search for leiby. those who couldn’t be there really wanted to be there. jews from all backgrounds came togethere with such achdus.
    may hashem condole leiby’s family as well as all of us.
    leiby’s memory, although ive never met him, will always be etched in my brain. as well as the unity over these last 48 hours. may we all be untied for ONLY GOOD from here on in.

    speakup
    speakup
    12 years ago

    Don’t you understand what molesters do? They KILL so their victims will not identify them. They KILL so that their victims will forever be silenced, unable to describe their heinous acts and deviant behavior.
    They KILL so they can continue perpetrating unspeakable crimes on our children.

    Who will stop them? Who is brave enough among us to finally say, “Our children must come first?” Some of you, dear readers, yell “Moser!” and “Traitor!” when the police are called. You hate the idea of our image being tarnished. Even if it means locking away offenders, or speaking openly of these crimes so the stigma disappears.

    Why did it take this innocent child’s murder to wake our sleeping community from its slumber of denial?
    I can still hear the pathetic “no lashon horah” rants of those “righteous individuals” who condemn in the strongest manner anyone who tries to publicly educate parents and yeshivos about the dangerous predators lurking among us. Whenever the issue of child molesters arises, these voices call in unison to shut down the dialogue. “It’s not that bad,” they say. “Don’t exaggerate,” they smirk. On and on they go, refusing to encourage parents, rebbies, and teachers to have crucial conversations with their children and students. Actively discouraging others from open and honest dialogue about the ways to avoid becoming a victim. Any excuse to downplay the dangers.
    And thus they risk the very lives of our Moisheles, our Chana’lehs, our Leibys……….

    May this precious child’s short life and unspeakable, tragic murder serve as the wake-up call our communities need to educate our kinderlach and our parents about the very real dangers we face.

    outofthebox123
    outofthebox123
    12 years ago

    i have a feeling that the boy knew this person.

    mother
    mother
    12 years ago

    Yellow pages says 466 east 2 is home to a Aron family?!?!?!?!

    12 years ago

    get involved in installing CCTV thru-out the street corners of our community.
    For the sake of our children and elderly parents.

    MosheM
    MosheM
    12 years ago

    Heilige bashefer!!!

    roshyeshiva
    roshyeshiva
    12 years ago

    He is a mini hitler. Someone that can take an innocent child and slaughter him in such cold blood. Unbelievable. . . . .

    DRSLZ
    DRSLZ
    12 years ago

    This is an unimaginable tragedy, even for those of us experienced in dealing with cases of child abuse.

    Ironically, one of the main sugyas in this summer’s yarchei kallah on medical halacha in Jerusalem is protecting our children from molestation, and major poskim have been already scheduled to give shiurim on this pressing matter.

    I’m sure I speak on behalf of all members of the Jewish Board of Advocacy for Children and all professionals and child advocates in urging our community members to put aside our differences and find ways to better protect our children from the predators among us, ways that must include child safety education and immediate reporting of suspected child abuse to the police.

    aryeh123
    aryeh123
    12 years ago

    It shows his phone number is (917) 560-1695 -shwartzkys auto repair ‎

    2tellthetruth
    2tellthetruth
    12 years ago

    BDE GD DO SOMETHING. I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS. Hashem protect everyone please. And I am sorry to bring this up, but this is what happens when we let our closet molestors, our closet rapists, protect those animals in these community. I pray for this child’s mother and father and family and friends the most. If it is true the person who did this is Jewish, my gosh…. HaShem…

    Monseyer
    Monseyer
    12 years ago

    Why do we have to conclude molestation? What we know is a young innocent boy is dead! By apparently murderous thugs.

    Let the FBI do their job.

    If you always jump to molestation, you minimize it’s cause.

    stamm
    stamm
    12 years ago

    I wonder (we can wonder and never know) if this guy warned leiby earlier to get permisssion to walk tomorrow as opposed to taking the bus
    sickening, !!