A building super died following an assault at his own complex in Flatbush. <\/p>\n
It happened around 8:15 Wednesday morning at 1199 Ocean Ave. near Glenwood Place. <\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s family identified the super as 41-year-old Burim Havolli.<\/p>\n
Police said they found Havolli with serious head injuries. He was taken to a hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never expected this to happen in the country where we came to do our best,\u201d said Blerim Havolli, the victim’s younger brother.\u00a0\u201cHe loved this country. This country helped us a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim leaves behind a wife and three children \u2014 aged 8, 6 and 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo years old, the boy keeps asking, \u2018What\u2019s going on? Why so many people in here? Where\u2019s my father?\u201d said Blerim Havolli.<\/p>\n
A police source confirmed to News 12 that the victim confronted someone about stolen packages before an argument that escalated to the deadly assault.<\/p>\n
Petrit Havolli described his cousin as a good man and a family man. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no words that I can explain,\u201d said Petrit Havolli. \u201cThis is sad. He left behind three children. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe he\u2019s not alive today.\u201d <\/p>\n
Police said they had a person of interest is in custody but no charges had yet been filed as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The medical examiner is working to confirm the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A building super died following an assault at his own complex in Flatbush. It happened around 8:15 Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[211,98,100,99,1873,22761,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-39016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-assault","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-flatbush","tag-grief","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016","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=39016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}