{"id":238788,"date":"2026-05-21T00:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:38:13","slug":"news-12-bronx-brooklyn-serial-killer-sentenced-to-30-years-to-life-in-prison-for-the-murders-of-3-elderly-nycha-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238788\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Brooklyn Serial Killer Sentenced To 30 Years To Life In Prison For The Murders Of 3 Elderly Nycha Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Brownsville man who admitted to murdering three elderly women in their NYCHA apartments was sentenced on to 30 years to life in prison, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kevin Gavin, 71, pleaded guilty last month to first\u2011degree murder and three counts of second\u2011degree murder for killing Myrtle McKinney, 82, Jacolia James, 83, and Juanita Caballero, 78, between 2015 and 2021 inside the Carter G. Woodson Houses, where he also lived.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors said Gavin, a handyman who ran errands for elderly residents, used his access to get into the women\u2019s apartments. He fatally stabbed McKinney, stomped on James&#8217; neck and chest, and strangled Caballero with a phone cord while robbing her. Surveillance video later captured him using Caballero\u2019s debit card.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThese were acts of shocking depravity and cruelty,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cThe defendant exploited their trust and took their lives with brutal violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gavin was arrested in 2021 after detectives linked the killings through similarities in the victims and the building location. He later confessed, claiming disputes over money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brownsville man who admitted to murdering three elderly women in their NYCHA apartments was sentenced on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238788","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=238788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}