Posted on 04/06/2023 11:39:41 PM PDT by grundle
A killer ex-con feared as the “local bully” in his Brooklyn neighborhood was identified Thursday as the suspect in a $1,000 sucker-punch robbery that killed a local man devoted to caring for his elderly mother.
Career criminal Phillip Meyers, convicted of murder in 1999, had 17 prior arrests before the deadly attack on John Sarquiz, 55, as the victim walked home from a Dyker Heights mini-mart after making a cash withdrawal from an ATM machine, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.
Meyers, whose 13-year-old son was convicted alongside him in the 24-year-old slaying, was paroled in 2009 and quickly rang up another eight arrests — the most recent in 2020 for burglary.
He was also busted repeatedly between 1992 and 1998, with the charges escalating from burglary and criminal mischief to the homicide case, said Essig. The victim was carrying $1,000 cash when targeted and attacked, according to police and family members.
The 45-year-old fugitive suspect’s last known address was on Beach 19th St. in Brooklyn, said Essig, and he was also known as Philip Mastrage.
Sarquiz was attacked from behind on the evening of March 29. The attacker fled the scene with the stolen cash after repeatedly kicking the helpless victim in the head and body, police said.
Sarquiz died five days later when family members made the gut-wrenching decision to take him off life support.
Since the death of his father in 2014, he had been his elderly mother’s full-time live-in caretaker, according to relatives.
The victim’s sister said she was told the killer emptied Sarquiz’s wallet before throwing it back at the mortally injured man. His family stood vigil at his hospital bed before removing Sarquiz from life support this past Monday at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
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They will arrest him and a judge will let him go with no bail.
I’m sure Phillip was on the right track and turning his life around like they told him to when they released him Scot free over and over again.
When I type in Philip Meyer’s name into a search engine, pictures of Prince Philip come up.
So, be on the look out for either Prince Philip or somebody that resembles him.
Sounds like a fairly common name. This is NYC, not the UK.
Convicted of murder 1999, released on parole 2009.
Which state CA or NY is the greater Shiitehole?
That's how the so-called justice system works in Democrat run third world hellhole cities.
These scummy corrupt 'judges' and the whole corrupt democrat 'justice system' (like that idiot Bragg belongs to) is looking for a Republican jaywalking so they can throw the book at him...
The people of NYC need to bring back lynchings if they want to see justice.
but hey let's let Satan's animals run loose in the cities!!
Please don’t challenge them to a race.
Filthy thief.
black on White crime. Nothing to see here. Move along. /spit
The Daily News is the worst of the worst liberal rags and continuously touts the politicians who made the current state of NYC possible. My hope is that their editorial board comes toe to toe with criminals like the lunatic in this story.
The system designs these types of crimes to make us fearful.
Instead, it makes us leave those hellholes which they did not intend. Remote working had an unintended consequence. People could leave crime-ridden areas and move to peaceful areas like where I live. That left cities to criminals and politicians but I repeat myself.
Okay, so who do they start with first, Judges, Politicians or the Criminals.
Meanwhile, they’re going after Trump. You know, the real criminal here.
If the locals are ever willing to go after the criminals then the others will likely have been changed by ordinary means.
Besides I don’t advise even looking crossways at that other bunch, for one I’m not in the Federal Bureau of Instigation and for two I would advise to be highly suspicious of anyone in a group agitating that way of being a fed or an informant.
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