A man was arrested Friday for stabbing his 85-year-old grandmother to death inside her Brooklyn apartment, cops said.
Jackson King, 22, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the fatal stabbing of Julia Boomer, cops said. He is expected to be arraigned in the coming days.
Boomer was stabbed multiple times in her head, neck and upper body inside her Throop Ave. home near Decatur St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:55 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. The victim’s daughter witnessed the brutal attack, sources said.
Medics rushed Boomer, a retired church-going postal worker, to Kings County Hospital, where she later died.
The grandson fled the apartment before cops arrived, only to be taken into custody after returning to the scene, sources said. He was then admitted to a local hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to sources.
The victim and King shared the same address, cops said.
Police said King was arrested three times last year, his girlfriend — the mother of his infant child — being the victim in each case.
“He had a big problem with his girlfriend,” a neighbor, who lives in the same building as the victim and her son, told the Daily News. “They would fight outside. He dropped her clothes out on the street. The police were here at least a few times.”
Prosecutors charged him with grand larceny and criminal mischief for spitting in his girlfriend’s face and destroying her cellphone during a fight in Boomer’s apartment on July 3, according to court papers.
After his arrest, a judge granted an order of protection for the girlfriend, forbidding King from having any contact with his child’s mother.
Two weeks later, King was charged with petty larceny and violating the order of protection after his girlfriend learned he had allegedly transferred $320 from her account without her permission.
On Oct. 27, cops arrested King inside his grandmother’s apartment for again violating the order of protection. In that case, he was accused of spitting on both his girlfriend and her baby daughter during an argument.
None of the charges he faced were bail-eligible, officials said. During each arraignment, Brooklyn prosecutors had asked a judge to put the grandson on supervised release, where he would be enrolled in a program to ensure he would return to court, but the judge released him without those conditions, court records show.
“I seen the police came and I opened the door for them,” said landlord Ali Mohamed. “I am Muslim. My religion say that to kill somebody, it’s the worst thing.”
“I feel very bad,” he added. “Especially an old woman, 85 years old. Family should protect old women, protect old men.”
Police sources said the grandson had been upset in recent days about a contentious custody battle over his infant daughter. Earlier this week, he was in court to attend a custody hearing, which didn’t go well for him, a police source said.
“That is not the (man) I know,” Boomer’s 59-year-old ex-son-in-law, who wished not to be named, said of the grandson.”(He’s a) very nice kid. It is beyond me to find out what was going on there, I cannot say. Maybe drugs have something to do with it. I don’t know.”
