BMW Victim Breathing On His Own, Attacker Still Loose

Barion A. Blake in 2007.

After his story received a massive amount media attention, the family of Akeem Ajimotokan have moved him from Harlem Hospital to another, undisclosed, medical institution. And while Ajimotokan (who was found last week stuffed into the back of his BMW with his ear half-torn off) is still in a coma, he is reportedly now breathing on his own.

Meanwhile police are still hunting Barion A. Blake, a crook with a thing for BMWs who is suspected of offering to buy Ajimotokan's car before changing his mind and instead beating him up and stuffing him in the back. Blake, who it turns out is the nephew of NYPD counterterrorism division Deputy Chief Michael Blake, was last seen fleeing the BMW after getting into a fender-bender with a taxi.

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