The dismembered body of a 9-year-old Hasidic boy, who went missing from a Brooklyn day camp on Monday, was found stuffed inside a suitcase and thrown in a dumpster, according to the NY Post. Little Leibby Kletsky’s body parts were found discarded in 2 separate locations in Brooklyn, NY on Tuesday.
Acting on tips and credit card receipts, police raided a Kensington home on E. 2nd Street this morning and arrested 35-year-old suspect Levi Aron, who led them to the locations where he discarded Leibby’s body parts. Leibby’s severed feet were found in the man’s freezer.
Leibby was allowed to walk alone from the Boyan Day Camp on 44th street near 12th Avenue to meet his parents who had a doctor’s appointment on 13th Avenue and 50th street on Monday, according to the NY Post. Leibby was last seen leaving the Boyan Day Camp at 4:50 p.m.
Boro Park Shomrim chief Simcha Bernath said the family confirmed the boy walked by himself, but normally he took the bus. The couple even took special pains to repeatedly go over the boy’s walking route with him, a friend said.
Leibby was instructed to walk one block to 13th Avenue and then turn right on 13th Avenue and walk to 50th Street, said a family friend, Rabbi Bernard Freilich.
Leibby was captured on grainy surveillance images from a Locksmith shop on 45th Street and Dahill Road. He had walked up 44th Street as instructed, but instead of turning right on 13th Avenue, he kept going to 45th Street.
A gold car is seen in the video parallel parking at the curb near the shop. As Leibby walks into the video frame, a bearded Hasidic man crosses in front of him. In the next frame, the same man is seen walking back towards the gold car with Leibby following closely behind him.
The man — who police described as “a person of interest” — is seen driving off in the gold car.
Police said the suspect worked as a stock clerk at the Empire State Supply Co. hardware store on McDonald Avenue in Kensington
A co-worker said Aron is divorced with no kids and acted completely normal at work yesterday. Aron allegedly suffocated Leibby before chopping him up. 3 knives were found in a butcher block inside Aron’s apartment.
Leibby was the youngest child in a family of 5 girls. His distraught father, Nachman, had “tears in his eyes” as he watched the video footage of his son, according to Moishe Lefkovitz, the manager of the locksmith shop where the video was taken.
“He kept shaking his head, saying, ‘Where are you going? Where are you going? What are you doing?’ ”
Source: NY Post
