Serial killer pleads guilty to deaths of 3 women in Brooklyn senior housing complex - BERITAJA

A 71-year-old described by prosecutors arsenic a handyman pleaded blameworthy Friday to the murders of 3 women astatine the aforesaid flat analyzable who had hired him for help, authorities said.

Kevin Gavin admitted to sidesplitting the 3 women betwixt 2015 and 2021, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said successful a statement, which described Gavin arsenic a “serial slayer wrong his ain flat building.”

Gavin pleaded blameworthy to 1 count of first-degree execution and 3 counts of second-degree execution successful speech for a condemnation of 30 years to life successful prison, the agency said in a statement.

“This suspect exploited aged women who trusted him, gained entree to their homes, and murdered them successful a bid of sadistic attacks that shocked the conscience,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said successful the statement. “These victims were susceptible neighbors who deserved information and dignity, and alternatively had their lives stolen by personification they believed was location to help.”

The defendant’s lawyer had nary comment.

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Gavin lived astatine the New York City Housing Authority’s Carter G. Woodson Houses, a circa-1970 nationalist lodging analyzable for seniors successful Brooklyn, wherever Myrtle McKinney, 82, Jacolia James, 83, and Juanita Caballero, 78, were killed successful their apartments.

McKinney was stabbed successful the cervix pinch a weapon connected Nov. 8, 2015, the DA’s agency said.

She had moved into the building much than 10 years anterior arsenic a retired housekeeper from Jamaica who had worked successful Florida and the Bahamas, New York Magazine reported successful an article about the killings.

James died aft Gavin stomped connected her cervix and thorax connected April 30, 2019, the DA’s agency said. It had previously said she was strangled.

A comparative recovered James look down and bruised aft pushing unfastened her apartment’s unlocked door, the mag reported.

Relatives described her arsenic vigilant and wary of strangers, according to the publication, which reported she had lived successful the analyzable for decades.

Caballero was strangled pinch a telephone cord successful her flat connected Jan. 14, 2021, the DA’s office. It has said the execution happened during a robbery.

Caballero, who was known arsenic “Lucy” for her broadside hustle of trading loose cigarettes successful the building, was recovered by her son, who was visiting for the weekend, New York Magazine reported.

The DA’s agency said information video showed Gavin utilizing her debit paper a fewer days later. He was arrested a week aft Caballero’s assemblage was found, authorities said, and confessed to the 3 murders.

Gavin claimed to person been successful disputes pinch each unfortunate complete money and that he “fought pinch each unfortunate anterior to their death,” the DA’s agency antecedently said.

The killings inspired organization concerns about information astatine the multistory analyzable successful the Brownsville neighborhood, including what immoderate said was a request for much information cameras. In early 2022, the housing authority announced that 127 information cameras had been installed successful stairwells, connected rooftops and successful elevators astatine the two-building complex.

“Woodson Houses is now afloat equipped pinch a caller web of information cameras to thief amended information for residents,” it said.

Reached Friday, a spokesperson for the lodging authority did not instantly supply a comment.

Gavin’s sentencing is scheduled for May 30.