BROOKLYN (WABC) -- Authorities say 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky was a victim of a random act of violence, murdered and dismembered after he apparently got lost and asked for help.
Levi Aron, 35, was arrested early Wednesday, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Kleztky left the Boyan Day Camp at 1205 44th Street Monday evening, but never showed up to meet his mother three blocks away in Borough Park.
Kelly said the boy's parents had taken him through the route the day before, and he was to walk the seven blocks from the camp to meet his mother. He left at about 5:05 p.m., got lost and asked the wrong man for help.
The surveillance video released by police shows Kleztky walking behind a man near a gold vehicle on 18th Avenue between 45th Street and 46th Street.
The video shows the same man entering a dentist's office nearby just 10 minutes earlier. Detectives located one of the dentists who worked there and established that the suspect had been in the office on Monday to pay a bill.
Officials said with the assistance of a receptionist and another dentist associated with the practice, detectives found records at the dentists' office that established the suspect's name and address. He was apprehended 40 minutes later.
Kelly said he lives alone in an attic apartment, in a building occupied by his parents and other family.
Kelly said investigators found blood on Aron's refrigerator. Sources told the Associated Press, detectives opened it to discover bloody knives, a cutting board and feet inside.
Officials said Aron told investigators to go to the dumpster, on 20th Street off Fourth Avenue in Greenwood Heights. Police found the dumpster's lid open and a suitcase inside that contained portions of the boy's dismembered body.
"It was a very brutal murder," Assemblyman Dov Hikind said. "We're all very, very sad. This is the worst possible conclusion imaginable."
Police said it does not appear that Levi had any previous contact with Kletzky or his family.
"It appears to be totally random," Kelly said.
On Tuesday night, thousands of neighbors, investigators and detectives helped Leibby's parents search for him.
Kelly said Aron panicked when he saw the extent of the search and killed the boy.
A funeral for Kleztky will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Adel Erps, who lives two blocks from the family, said she was very upset because the state of the body means it will be more difficult to do a proper burial. Like other neighborhood residents congregating near the boy's home Wednesday, she expressed shock that the suspect was Jewish.
"He's a sick person obviously, but it hurts so much more," she said
WATCH VIDEO HERE : Little Leiby is seen following the murderer in the picture above.Heartbreaking and bone chilling~
Source : New York Post
I am so disturbed and if you have a heatrt,you are too.You are not suppose to fight hate with hate,but I seriously hope this bastard gets raped daily with no lube by the biggest men in prison!!! How could he? An innocent baby? Look at his little face....he did not deserve to go out like that.I hate saying rest in peace to victims of such crimes.How can they rest when they died so brutally? Fly with the angels sweetheart.Another reason why I am so afraid to have children.My babies aren't going anywhere!!! I had to SAY DAT!
ETA - Little Leiby's father was shown the video of his son following the murderer and cried while saying to his son in the video "Where are you going? Where are you going?"
Heartbreaking...............
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