The super of a Brooklyn apartment building was killed during a violent dispute with a man who was allegedly part of a crew that had been stealing packages from the building since the summer, according to police and sources. <\/p>\n
The 41-year-old, a married dad of three young kids, was rushed from his building on Ocean Ave. in Ditmas Park to Kings County Hospital Center in critical condition shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The super, whose identity was withheld pending family notification, suffered multiple blows to the head and was pronounced dead shortly after, cops said. <\/p>\n
An apartment superintendent in Brooklyn was killed during a suspected dispute with a man who had been stealing packages from the building. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
A 30-year-old man whose identity was not revealed was taken into custody, police confirmed. The exact relationship between the two is unclear, but sources noted that the fight appeared to start as a verbal altercation that turned violent.<\/p>\n
Johnny Garcia, a 55-year-old porter who worked with the victim for 15 years, told The Post that a fight likely broke out over a chronic theft problem the building staff and tenants have dealt with over the last several months.<\/p>\n
There was a \u201cpackage theft alert\u201d pasted inside the apartment building.<\/p>\n
Garcia said that a trio of scalpers has repeatedly come by the apartment and made off with tenants\u2019 packages, but that the thefts recently started happening more frequently. <\/p>\n
He said that the person of interest in police custody came to the apartment \u201cat least three times\u201d before and once tried \u201cto break open the door with a screwdriver.\u201d<\/p>\n
A \u201cpackage theft alert\u201d pasted inside the building warned residents about the crew of thieves, who would repeatedly buzz random apartments until they were granted entry into the lobby, according to the sheet.<\/p>\n
Garcia added that \u201csome tenants, they see and then tell them to go\u201d \u2014 but not his friend and co-worker.<\/p>\n
A porter for the building told The Post that the victim likely tried to stop the thief. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201cA man came to rob the packages and [the super] saw him and he tried to hold him for the police to come. It looked like a fight inside because the carpet looked like it was moved. He tried to keep him, to hold him for the police,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Garcia surmised that the victim spotted the thief shortly after dropping off his children, who are all under 8 years old, at school. <\/p>\n
The porter said that the victim was a married father of three. Google Maps<\/p>\n
\u201cI still can\u2019t believe it. [The super] was a very good guy. Very good guy with me, the best guy. I know him very well. He was a working person, working very hard,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
The porter added that the super had only just returned from a trip to \u201chis country\u201d to visit family, so they hadn\u2019t seen one another in a while.<\/p>\n
Relatives told the Post that the victim was \u201ca great man.\u201d Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201cI see police. I see all family. I say, \u2018what happened?’\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came in happy to see him to say hi, but no.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s relatives told The Post that he was \u201ca great man.\u201d <\/p>\n
A cause of death hasn\u2019t been determined yet, and the police investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The super of a Brooklyn apartment building was killed during a violent dispute with a man who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,1840,10532,2954,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-38034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-ditmas-park","11":"tag-landlords","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034","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=38034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}