Second Hate Crime Murder Suspect Thinks It's No Big Deal

Suspect Keith Phoenix, left; murder victim Jose Sucuzhanay, right

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly released a chilling account of yesterday's police interrogation of Keith Phoenix, the second man arrested this week in the hate crime murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant in Bushwick. While his partner in crime Hakim Scott was reported to have been shaken up by the death of Jose Sucuzhanay when brought in, Phoenix expressed no such remorse. Instead he asked cops, "So I killed someone—that makes me a bad guy?...What's the big deal? The guy's dead."

Police say that the investigation "began with a license plate number and little else" after a quick thinking cabbie at the scene of the crime took down the license plate of the SUV driven by Phoenix. After towing the SUV, cops were able to question one of Phoenix's girlfriends, whose vehicle he had borrowed the night of the attack.

She apparently wasn't the only lady in Phoenix's life, as he allegedly spent the three months since the crime crashing with various girlfriends throughout Manhattan, Westchester and Connecticut. Sources say he spent his days on the lam playing video games on the computer. Friday he was picked up at a Yonkers apartment on Ravine Avenue, where he had been staying at a group home that one girlfriend lived at.

When being brought into court for arraignment in Brooklyn yesterday, one onlooker shouted, “You’re not smiling now, are you?” Police had released video of Phoenix chuckling his way through the RFK Bridge tolls immediately after the crime. At the press conference announcing his arrest, Mayor Bloomberg said, “This horrible act appears to have been fueled by a deadly combination of ethnic and homophobic prejudice...This will send a message that you picked the wrong city if you want to be intolerant"

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By Billy Parker in News on February 28, 2009 10:05 AM

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markedman

oh man, let MS-13 have this guy.

Spirit of 76

Brooklyn's classier than "openheads."

The guy looks so bored with life. He should just plead guilty, save the taxpayers a lot of money on a trial and maybe just spare himself the death penalty. I'm sure they have video games in the pen or maybe they can sue to get them. "Murder One. Rated I for Incarcerated. Now on Xbox360."

openheads

You stay classy Brooklyn.

smokeeg

this guy is obviously a piece of shit. probably a homosexual hiding behind his act. not one for the death penalty but as a gay male of latin decent, am sic with this story. more disgusted at his arrogant attitude. i hope he get's it right up the a@@ and than dies a slow painful death. rott in hell asshole.

Clarice City

"So I killed someone—that makes me a bad guy?...What's the big deal? The guy's dead."

Enter the enormous cop/handlers.

Snoopy

The Latin Kings will have fun with this guy when he shows up in prison. Watch the guards be on a coffee break when the boys break this guy into many little pieces.

kcin122

those cops are huge

Steven

Give him a slow painful death. There is no reason why he should be wasting money sitting in a prison cell.

Armchair_warrior

can't we just hang him or shoot him. saves the tax payers alot of money.

Mr Mel

Or have the 2 detectives just sit on him.

texinyc

Right? Have another doughnut guys.

verbal

>Mayor Bloomberg said, “This horrible act appears to have been fueled by a deadly combination of ethnic and homophobic prejudice...This will send a message that you picked the wrong city if you want to be intolerant"

"unless of course you're me, then you can be intolerant of everyone and everything, including election laws, and those silly little voter people that pay all the taxes"

hate crime legislation is stupid; the leftys that champion it are hypocritical beyond comprehension.

Spirit of 76

Hope this asshole rots in jail forever. Even better would be the death penalty. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why he needs to continue living.