The black male how brutally beat a 65-year-old Asian woman who was on her way to church Monday morning has been arrested and identified:
NY POST – The man busted for the hate-fueled attack on an Asian woman in Midtown was out on parole for killing his own mother back in 2002, authorities said Wednesday.
Brandon Elliot, 38, who lives in a nearby hotel that serves as a homeless shelter, was arrested early Wednesday and hit with a number of charges, including assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime, police said.
He was caught on video mercilessly punching and kicking the 65-year-old victim in front of an apartment building at 360 West 43rd Street around 11:40 a.m. Monday, yelling “F–k you, you don’t belong here,” according to cops and police sources.
Elliot stabbed his mother to death in front of his 5-year-old sister back in 2002:
In April 2002, Elliot was charged with murder for using a kitchen knife to stab his mother, Bridget Johnson in the chest three times in their East 224th Street home in the Bronx, according to previous reports.
The deadly attack took place in front of Elliot’s 5-year-old sister, sources told The Post. It’s unclear what led to the slaying.
Johnson, 42, died a couple of days later.
Elliot was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison.
He was denied parole twice — first at a February 2017 hearing and again in December 2018, according to a state Department of Corrections official.
But the following year, he was approved for release in September and sprung on lifetime parole two months later.
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking more details on the murder case.
The dude brutally murdered his mother in front of his very young sister and they let him out of prison? What the heck is wrong with these people in New York?
I’m just thankful that this Asian woman didn’t suffer the same fate as his mother. She does have a broken pelvis and other less serious injuries, but she’s been released from the hospital which is a good thing. But this never should have happened in the first place because Elliot never should have been released from prison. Clearly.
The truth is that if Elliot hadn’t been released in 2019, he would have been released in 2020 because of the pandemic. In fact as I was reading this, I fully expected that to be the reason he was paroled. Nope. Turns out these bleeding heart liberals decided he was good to go.