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VIDEO at site entitled "Two Teens Arrested In Beating Death of Homeless Man"-
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Two Teens Arrested, Charged With Beating Death of Homeless Man

By Ken Rosato
(East New York-WABC, June 18, 2004) --Two teenagers are facing murder charges today over the horrific beating death of a homeless man.

This vicious attack took place over a distance of four blocks. Police say that one man tried to intervene as the victim tried to get away from his attackers. The man who tried to intervene says he is convinced those attackers are part of a g
ng and this is gang- related.

The homeless victim, 51-year-old William Pearson, was found outside St. Gabriel's Church Thursday morning. Investigators say his beating was so brutal, he died righ

t on the sidewalk where he had been attacked with bricks and a metal garbag
e can.

Church Pastor: "They were beating him with the stones and bricks. They were throwing bricks at him."

Police believe the victim ran to the church for help trying to outrun two teenagers who were chasing him. Those two boys, both 15-years old, are in police custody today, charged with second-degree murder.

Resident: "I hope whoever did this runs for refuge to our Lord. Because this is not right."

Neighbors say the homeless man would often come to the church because it offers free meals to the poor.

Kathryn Grayson, Neighbor: "It is so sad. He didn't bother anybody. Everybody knew him. He was a nice man."

One of the suspect's grandfather is in d
isbelief over the vicious crime.

Thomas Robinson, Suspect's Grandfather: "I don't know. You can't tell what kids will do today."

Police identified the two 15-ye
ar-o
lds as Dayshawn Washington and Jamelle Robinson. They are both being charged as adults with second-degree murder.

 

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William Pearson was pulled from this car, chased and beaten to death. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/25932.htm

...said to be part of a bloody gang-initiation rite led by at least two members of a group of teenage ruffians, residents said.

"I got my body,&qu
t; </span>one of the teens bragged after the killing, cops said.

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Seeking Answers on a 4-Block Path to a Killing
Published: June 19, 2004

he two teenagers were bored, wandering the darkened streets in what the police said was an apparent search for so
meone to rob. It was 3 a.m. on Thursday when they came across a homeless man, known by everyone in the neighborhood, resting in the back seat of a parked car, the police said. In East New York, Brooklyn, in the middle of the night, he was one of the few available t
argets. But he was not an easy mark, confronting the two boys who rousted him and then mocked him when he fell to the ground outside the car, according to the police. He reached for his nearest w
eapo
n --an empty bottle --and tossed it at them in a futile act of bravado.

Less than half an hour later, a neighborhood horror had unfolded in a burst of inexplicable brutality. Billy Pearson, a 51-year-old regular on the sidewalks of New Lots Avenue, the harmless guy who runs errands and then asks for a dollar, was dead in the shadows of a church. On Thursday night two neighborhood 15-year-olds, Jamel Robinson and Dashorn Washington, were charged with second-degree murder. Neither had any apparent criminal record, though Dasho
rn had behavioral problems, according to his family.

When the evidence was collected, the police had several trash-can lids and <span style=\'color:red\'>more than a dozen blood-stained bricks that they said had served as murder weapons

. Investigators who reco
nstructed the beating said it had proceeded in fits and starts along a four-block stretch of the avenue, and one witness claimed to have intervened at some point before a priest saw what
was happ
ening and called 911.

All that was left yesterday, besides the arraignments, the newspaper reports and arrangements for Mr. Pearson's funeral Mass, was to wonder why. But no one --not the police, or the boys' families, or the crowd of homeless people who were Mr. Pearson's version of a family --had a satisfactory answer.

Though the killing seemed to have come out of nowhere, the characters fit the neighborhood demographic. On a walk through this stretch, which lies almost entirely in the shade of elevated su
bway tracks, one will see plenty of old men sitting on milk crates, and plenty of teenagers and young men walking in groups.

"It's only a lot of teenagers, kids," said Mindy Tweed, a 27-year-old nursing assistant. "But guys my age? No."

It make
s for a strange generational fissure between two groups that do not always see the world in the same way. Some of Mr. Pearson's acquaintances said that in recent years there had
been several
beatings of older men by young men and teenagers, though investigators said they were unaware of any such attacks.

According to neighbors, few older men were better known than Mr. Pearson. He had been sleeping on the streets and in the cars of East New York for years, and had become a shy but friendly fixture, known simply as Billy.

Jacqueline Evans, 48, said that years ago Mr. Pearson was a construction worker and had lived with his mother in the Pink Houses, a nearby project. "After his mom died, that's when he started drinking," she said, "Drinking right
by the liquor store every morning."

Relatives in New Jersey took Mr. Pearson in, she said, but he preferred the freedom of street life. Others said he did not want to cause problems for his family.

Over the next
several years, as his alcoholism worsened, his days on New Lots Avenue were distilled to a relatively strict schedule, friends said. Mornings, he ate in the basement of St. Ga
briel Roman Cath
olic Church, where an outside program runs a soup kitchen and offers counseling. Most of the rest of his day was spent sitting outside the One Stop Deli or scraping up a dollar or two where he could. "He used to run errands for businesses around here and people would give him a little money," said Sister Madeline Kavanagh, who runs the soup kitchen.

When night fell, he would head to the cars parked at the Getty gas station on Warwick Street. s, workers at the station said. It was there, in his latest residence, a dented burgundy Oldsmobile belonging to a man up the street, that his attackers fou
nd him on Thursday morning.

 

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