was found battered and with multiple stab wounds,<\/a> according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\nAn unkempt-looking King, 22, appeared in court Saturday to face a murder charge in Boomer\u2019s Jan. 13 death.<\/p>\n
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Jackson King, 22, was arraigned on murder and weapons charges in his grandmother\u2019s killing. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
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Julia Boomer, 85, was found by her daughter with stab wounds throughout her body, officials said. Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
King, cuffed behind his back and with his hair uncombed, was wearing black sweatpants, white socks and black slip-on shoes for the appearance before Judge Elizabeth Warin, during which he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
The suspect spoke to his lawyer but otherwise said nothing as he was arraigned in front of Judge Elizabeth Warin on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Julia Boomer.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Defense Services Lawyer Matt Coretto asked for medical and psychiatric attention for his client, who has been hospitalized since the heinous crime.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Taylor Lupi asked Jackson be sent to jail and the judge agreed, sending King to Rikers Island without bail.<\/p>\n
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The woman\u2019s grandson told his mom he killed his grandmother, according to a court document released Saturday. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
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Jackson King, 22, lived with Boomer in a Throop Avnue building in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
Boomer was stabbed multiple times just before 10 p.m. on Jan. 13 in the home she shared with Jackson on Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s daughter made the grim discovery, cops said.<\/p>\n
Boomer was rushed to Kings County Hospital in critical condition but couldn\u2019t be saved.<\/p>\n
The motive for the killing, which cops called a domestic dispute,\u00a0wasn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n
King has three prior arrests on his record for grand larceny and criminal contempt, police sources said.<\/p>\n
The murder was the first in the NYPD\u2019s 79 Precinct so far this year, police data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops outside crime scene in Brooklyn. A Brooklyn man allegedly confessed to stabbing his grandmother, admitting the crime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36624,47360,47093,45865,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-104038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-criminal-complaint","9":"tag-elizabeth-warin","10":"tag-jackson-king","11":"tag-julia-boomer","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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