A Brooklyn ex-con allegedly stabbed his Flatbush building’s handyman to death because he was furious his home was without heat or hot water in the middle of winter, prosecutors said in opening statements at the murder trial today..
Convicted sex offender Errol Irving, 62, is on trial for the murder of Shayne Sinclair, 40, who was killed while his friends and baby daughter waited in a car outside for him to pick up his tools.
Irving was so upset that cold February night that he started an argument with Sinclair and then stabbed him, said assistant district attorney Bernarda Villalona in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“All that anger should have been directed at the landlord,” Villalona said. “Shayne Sinclair didn’t have a chance. He was unarmed and was just going in to get his tools.”
“Shayne said yes to everything,” said a tearful Angeline Bascon, the mother of Sinclair’s baby. “He would always help anyone who asked.”
Irving previously served 20 years in prison for incest and sodomy.
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