The fiend often called the “Brooklyn Ripper” for stabbing two younger kids, one fatally, within the elevator of a housing mission in 2014 died in a New York jail final month, The Put up has discovered.
Daniel St. Hubert, 37, was serving 50 years to life at Inexperienced Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville for the heinous crimes when he died simply after 2 p.m. on Dec. 17, the state Division of Corrections and Group Supervision stated.
“This is what you call true justice. He is rotting in hell now,” Regenia Trevathan, the great-grandmother of certainly one of Hubert’s younger victims, informed The Put up.
The circumstances round St. Hubert’s demise stay unknown.
St. Hubert was convicted in 2018 of murdering Prince Joshua Avitto, 6, and attempting to kill his greatest pal, 7-year-old Mikalaya Capers, who miraculously survived the assault after being stabbed 16 occasions.
The harmless kids have been on their option to seize some ice cream once they have been knifed at random contained in the Boulevard Homes in East New York.
Capers, now a 17-year-old school scholar, does her greatest to not take into consideration St. Hubert, however the reminiscences of that fateful June day 11 years in the past nonetheless generally come again to hang-out her.
“Sometimes I try not to remember this bad man and what he did to me and P.J.,” she informed The Put up.
“But every day I must look at my body and see those 16 stab wounds for the rest of my life,” the teenager stated.
Capers’ great-grandmother and authorized guardian, Trevathan, expressed gratitude over the outpouring of assist the household has acquired because the unthinkable tragedy.
“I thank everybody for their prayers and their continued prayers for Mykala that she continues on the path to succeed in life’s journey in spite of everything she went through,” she stated.
Avitto’s mom, Aricka McClinton, stated the demise of her son’s cold-blooded killer has introduced a way of closure.
“I kind of feel good because now my child can rest in peace. It has been 10 years too long,” McClinton informed The Put up.
“Now I can feel a little closure within myself.”
McClinton additionally mirrored on what might have been if her son was nonetheless alive right now.
“I miss him every day. He would be 17 years old now. “He was a little gentleman then and normally when they start that way, they stay that way – he would still be a gentleman today.”
