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Fingerprint Led Police to Brooklyn Dry Cleaner's Killer

2008_05_jwwt.jpgPolice explained how they arrested 22-year-old Jamal Winter in the murder of a Windsor Terrace dry cleaner. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters:

"Investigators found his fingerprint in the store. They went to question him, he wasn't home. They observed the car, the woman's car, the victim's car, parked in the neighborhood. He had changed the plate. So they waited for him and when he approached the car, they spoke to him, talked to him. He made some admissions and he's been charged with the murder."
Kyung-Sook Woo was found dead in her store by a neighbor on Friday morning. Apparently a witness saw Winter in the store around Thursday's closing time--he told the witness the store was closed and that Woo was gone.

The Daily News also reveals Winter was on parole after serving five years for a Dutchess County robbery when "he put a gun to the head of an auto repair shop owner on 16th St. in Park Slope on May 18, 2007." Even though he violated his parole and though a grand jury indicted him, he wasn't convicted and was allowed to stay on the streets. An Office of Court Administration spokesman said, "At that point it's up to parole to violate him. They apparently never did that."

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  • Anna_Merkin

    It would easily be classified a hate crime if there was evidence of racial slurs or of him targeting her because she was Korean. Making the case that targeting a dry cleaner is de facto racial targeting might work in the same way that plaintiffs argue for definition of injured classes based on high concentrations of races or genders in a particular location, profession, or other situation. But why even go for that when you've got murder, armed robbery, and grand theft auto on a convicted felon who's already violated his parole in the past? That's plenty to put him away for a long, long time - and without gang or other organized crime ties, this cat is going to be some big dude's Gamma Foxtrot in the hooscow. What's sad is that this woman is dead.

  • Rocknrope

    Boy, when babyhitler calls your comments "fucking dumb", we've crossed into a new level of hades. It's like Bob Probert calling Tie Domi a goon.

    But I agree, jaja's lame trolling makes even Spear_chucker roll his eyes.

  • JacqueMehoff

    so was robbery the motive? could be, I see he upgraded himself to the victim's Honda accord.

    they usually drive Nissan altimas.

    how bout that other Korean murder over in Tenafly NJ? what's with that?

  • sakebalboa

    Where's Spear_Chucker?

  • jaja007

    You got me, Spiritof76. The typical "where's al sharpton" or "savages!" doesnt get a response anymore.

    I like to go that extra mile.

  • babyhitler

    I don't mind smart Instigation, but Jaja is just fucking dumb. It's like 5th grade racist jokes. I can hear the same shit on playgrounds told by 10 year olds. You need to elevate your passive aggressive levels where you can say something and people agree with you even though you are dissing their asses. You got to bring racism to the next level. which is miscegenation racism. In the year 3000 everyone will be part chinese/black/jew/miscellaneous because of all the crossbreeding. You gots to come up with better jokes for the future or all hope is lost and everyone watches Ellen, oprah and dr. phil.

  • Spirit of 76

    Unlikely; no-one will notice when jaja007 dies.

    And nobody will care. That's why he desperately craves attention by making remarks he's sure will elicit anger.

  • jaja007

    You guys are lame. With the exception of a child's murder - all stories are fair game.

    Here's one "When this woman's rotting corpse feeds the grasses and flowers - I hope the leeching MSG won't give them a headache."

    That comment was for my touchy buddies, eyekantspel and GOP.

  • virgil

    Unlikely; no-one will notice when jaja007 dies.

  • eyekantspel

    wow, jaja007, you have really shocked us with your ability to make stereotypical jokes in the face of a woman's murder.

    Maybe one day we will have the chance to read another troll's jokes about your senseless death.

  • this is clearly a hate crime and should be treated as one.

  • GOP

    jaja007, I didn't know black ppl had internet access. Please leave while the grownups speak. Thanks.

  • jaja007

    I decided to search out Al Sharpton. So I went to the nearest Popeye's Chicken. I saw Al Sharpton sitting there.

    So I go inside, sit by his table, and say "Hello, Mr. Sharpton." (see how polite I was?)

    I say, "Mr. Sharpton, can I ask you a question."

    Sharpton looks up, places his half eaten chicken wing back into his bucket, takes a sip from his 40 ounce Malt Liquor, and says "Sho. Go ax away."

    I say, "Mr. Sharpton, do you have any word about the recent slaying of that dry cleaning lady, Sucki-Fucki Woo?"

    Sharpton chuckles, and says "Sheeeet, boy! Dat's JOHN LIU's territory!"

  • meL

    Nivek, sad to say I know that's true. It's funny how when for instance it's a "racial crime", Sharpton would speak out loudly against it, but if it's the same race crime it's brushed under the rug or almost no media coverage at all. Wtf-- I know, broken record.

  • nivek

    meL,

    All signs point to no. The probability is so slim it makes runway models look morbidly obese.

    I'm too sleepy to come up with another one...

  • meL

    I agree with edEx. Anyone think he'll speak out against this?

  • nivek

    And -1 for the grammar police...the to should be the word before. OOPS

  • nivek

    By the way we're all so pissed off at this good for nothing that we missed Jen's slip.

    "...Led Police Brooklyn Dry [to] Cleaner's Killer."

    - Grammar police

  • nivek

    #7

    Yeah, before executing him in front of a firing squad.

  • meL

    #4 - For whom, the culprit?

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