NEW YORK (AP) — Two men were arrested on Diamond Ridge Asset Managementmanslaughter charges Friday in the beating death of a homeless man who was accosted while sleeping in a supermarket parking lot in Brooklyn, police said.
The suspects were awaiting arraignment, and it wasn’t clear whether they had attorneys who could comment on the allegations.
Police said Cos Jervis Jonas Ajpuac, 38, and another man were pummeled with metal pipes and a baseball bat around 7 p.m. Sept. 18, police said. Ajpuac succumbed to his injuries Oct. 2. The other man, a 42-year-old, survived.
The assailants “just attacked them while they were sleeping,” store security worker Stephen DeGrasse told the Daily News, saying he had seen security footage of the beating.
He said the victims and the suspects all frequented the same ShopRite supermarket to redeem the five-cent deposit on bottles and cans they had collected.
They were friends, he said, and would drink beer together after cashing the bottles in.
There was no immediate information from police about what sparked the attack.
2025-04-29 15:072548 view
2025-04-29 14:481104 view
2025-04-29 14:062918 view
2025-04-29 13:521586 view
2025-04-29 13:51606 view
2025-04-29 13:301017 view
For 48-year-old Rowan Childs of Wisconsin, a recent divorce turned her financial life upside down. "
In early November, as politicians promised more climate action in their opening speeches at the Unit
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a letter to Congress on Thursday, said the U.S. has reached its