The thug known as the “Brooklyn Ripper” who stabbed two young children in a housing project elevator in 2014, one fatally, died in a New York prison last month, the Post reports. I found out.
Daniel St. Hubert, 37, was serving a life expectancy of 50 years at Greenhaven Correctional Facility in Stormville for a violent crime and died just after 2 p.m. on Dec. 17, the state Corrections and Community Superintendent said. The station announced.
“This is real justice. He's rotting in hell right now,” Regenia Trevathan, the great-grandmother of one of Hubert's young victims, told the Post.
The circumstances of St. Hubert's death remain unclear.
St. Hubert was found guilty in 2018 of murdering 6-year-old Prince Joshua Avitt and attempting to kill his best friend Mikalayah Capers, 7, who miraculously survived after being stabbed 16 times. Ta.
The innocent young men were trying to buy ice cream when they were randomly stabbed inside the Boulevard House in East New York.
Capers, now a 17-year-old college student, tries her best not to think about St. Hubert, but the memories of that fateful June day 11 years ago still come back to haunt her from time to time. are.
“Sometimes I try not to remember this bad man and what he did to me and PJ,” she told the Post.
“But I have to look at my body every day for the rest of my life and see those 16 stab wounds,” the teen said.
Trevathan, Capers' great-grandmother and legal guardian, expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support the family has received since the unimaginable tragedy.
“We would like to thank everyone for your prayers and for continuing to pray for Mikala, to keep her on the path to success in her life’s journey despite everything she has been through. ” she said.
Avitt's mother, Allika McClinton, said her son's cold-blooded killer's death had left her feeling stranded.
“I feel kind of better now that my child can rest in peace. 10 years has been too long,” McClinton told the Post.
“Right now, I'm feeling a little stuck inside.”
McClinton also reflected on what would have happened if her son were still alive.
“I miss him every day. He's 17 years old now. “He was a little gentleman back then. Usually when they start like that, they stay that way. He still is. He must be a gentleman.”
