’91 Crown Heights Thug’s New Life
The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed.
“Up until today, I left it alone,” Lemrick Nelson Jr., now 34, told The Post. “I don’t even think about it.”
“That was 19 years ago,” he said about fatally stabbing Hasid scholar Yankel Rosenbaum at the height of the notorious race riot. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I’m a man now. I’ve never been in or out of trouble. I don’t live that life.”
In his first interview since his 2004 release from prison, Nelson described himself as a sober family man.
“I don’t drink anymore because of what happened in 1991,” he said. Nelson’s legal team had blamed his violent act on drunkenness.
The Brooklyn riot was sparked when a Hasidic motorcade struck and killed a black child, Gavin Cato, 7. Hours later, a mob of angry black residents, including Nelson, hunted down Rosenbaum, a visiting Australian who had nothing to do with the fatal accident.
Bloody rioting, and clashes with cops, continued for days. By the end, 152 cops and 38 residents were injured, six stores were looted, and 27 police cars damaged.
Nelson now lives with a woman and their toddler daughter in an apartment in Hillside.
Neighbors and even his landlady, unaware of his notorious past, call him by his new nickname, “Ricky.”
Nelson, who was tried three times for Rosenbaum’s death and eventually served 10 years in prison, offered an apology for the riot, but not to his victim’s family. “I regret the fact that people got hurt out there,” he said.
He repeatedly asked that his whereabouts and current life not be disclosed. “Let bygones be bygones,” he pleaded. “All it will do is bring back people’s memories. You’re just going to create tension for me.”
Moshiach Come Now!
Tense!
What is up with this world???
I really don’t get this so someone who kills someone only gets 10 years in Jail, but Sholom Mordechai who never hurt a fly is being sentenced a life sentance! What is with this world – this place is CORUPT!!!
Just Sick
“bring BACK peoples memories” total scumbag..the rosenbaums family lives with the“Memories” on a day to day basis,considering that ur sick act has left them with nothing but memories. Perhaps an eye for an eye(toddler daughter) and a statement of“lets not bring up any memories ” n see how that works for u u dumb scumbag
YIMACH SHEMO NELSON!!!
injustice, Poor Yankel, H“ will revange your blood…Rubashkin in jail and Nelson Yimach Shemo in the street, free like a bird…running, smiling at the crazy CORUPT WORLD….
THIS IS JUSTICE IN AMERICA, FOR YANKEL; ELIYAHU WALD FROM BORO PARK; OKUNOW, FAMILY OUAKI, 5 YEARS OLD BOY FROM PARIS HAPPENED ON KINGSTON AVE, TISHREI TIME; HALBERSTAM; MRS.LAPINE; H” YISHMOR …. SO WAPE UP YIDDEN ??????
sarcasm intended
he doesn’t think about it anymore? it was a mistake? no guilty conscience for him. he can just live a normal life. boy ain’t life grand!
-Never in trouble
Doesn’t anyone remember that he stabbed someone in Virginia after being let off the hook?
fair, unjust, weighing what I see
ok so he now wants to live a life w/o crime, but why such a short sentence for taking a life.
YES, its very injust, and some of the injustices are
Rubashkin,
Pessa Leah Lapine a”h
Halberstam,
Okunow
and many more, many many more.
He should have had a much longer jail sentence, those people who get paid to make these legal decisions will have to answer to a Higher Authority. Meanwhile, we just say it is very seriously unjust. What they are pulling down on all of us, is that democracy is being tested even worse by the Muslims, for being used unjustly on us.
and by the way, just by the fact that this guy wouldn’t say he was sorry for the death, seems to show that he has little regard for taking a life…..
lets think into that
Let bygones be bygones
The murderer Lemrick wants to “let bygones be bygones”… Uhbelievable! Lemrick you mamzer, how dare you!! That is not your call!! That’s for the victim’s family and community to decide.
Poor Lemrick doesn’t want any “tension” to be created for him. He wants to live in peace and anonymity, and seems to feel he is ENTITLED to it! ANYONE WHO CAN FIND OUT AND REVEAL HIS TRUE IDENTITY AND WHEREABOUTS WITH THE GRWEATEST PIRSUM POSSIBLE PLEASE DO SO!!
Whoah
Such a ghetto attitude.
Moe
What ever happened to an eye for an eye ? We should hunt this animal down, him and his family and then let “bygone be bygone”. It would also serve a warning for all the other cockroaches that roam our streets.
NY Post
The picture is from Lemrick Nelson outside of his Hillside, NJ home at 176 Hillside Ave., on Thursday, May 13, 2010. Posted by the NY Post.
what nerve!
How about a kid stab him to death and we can safely all say: “Kids make mistakes- big deal…:
I-M SO ANGRY
HOW CAN THEY WANT TO PUT RUBASHKIN IN JAIL FOR 25 YEARS WHEN A MURDERER WAS ONLY IN THERE FOR 13!!!!!!!!! I DON’T WANT MY TAXES GOING TOWARDS THIS!!!!!!!
IT’S NOT FAIR I DON’T GET IT PUT THIS MAN BACK IN AND TAKE RUBASHKIN OUT NOW! NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!!!!! NNNOOOOOWWWWWW
IM SO ANGRY I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh?
To Just Sick:
His tot daughter???? are you sick in the head? This poor kid is nothing but an innocent child…
Think before you talk.
crazy smade
It’s things like this that test my emunah and I’m not going to get an A+ on this test, that’s for sure. Would that I could understand how this fits into the Big Picture, but I can’t. Everything works for the good, right? Isn’t that what I’m suppose to accept? ::::heavy sigh::::