May 19th -- Arrest in Brooklyn's dry cleaner murder...

Jamal Winter, a 22-year-old with a criminal record for robbery, was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Kyung-Sook Woo, a 63-year-old Asian female who ran a dry cleaning business in the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn, according to reports in the Daily News and NY Post. Winter, whose last known address was in Park Slope, the neighborhood adjacent to Windsor Terrace, told reporters: "I didn't do nothing." Charges against him were pending.

Winter was arrested for last week's murder of Woo after police released a sketch that looked remarkably similar to his appearance at the time of his arrest. Woo, a beloved neighborhood figure, was found dead in her store on 10th Avenue in Brooklyn last Friday morning. Police believe she was either hit on the head of strangled last Thursday evening, and that whoever killed her also stole her car, a 2008 white Honda Accord, that has not been recovered.

*****************************************************

The Times has a poignant story today on the murder of Brandon Bethea, the 15-year-old black female who was killed by a stray bullet over the weekend while she was dancing with friends outside the Redfern Projects in Far Rockaway. Her family had moved out of those very projects to Jamaica, Queens to avoid that type of random violence.

Brandon was back visiting with friends when she was murdered. Her stepfather Robert Drakeford told The Times: “I guess we should have moved further. We should have left New York altogether.”

There have been no arrests.