Blood runs thicker than water — but a gold chain, now that’s another matter.
A 22-year-old Brooklyn man shot his one-legged uncle twice in the head so he could steal the man’s pricey necklace, prosecutors charged today.
Jonathan Baez, 22, is accused of blasting Lavon Kimpson, 39, during a robbery last year right outside the uncle’s Bushwick apartment building.
“This is his own nephew, his family, his blood,” assistant district attorney Lindsay Gerdes told jurors in Brooklyn Supreme Court. “You’re not mistaken when your own nephew shoots and robs you.”
Kimpson — who lost his left leg in a car accident — said he used to buy his nephew clothes and meals.
“He was like my son,” Kimpson said. “I would have given him my last leg.”
The alleged attack happened at about 11 p.m. on April 27, 2011, just as Kimpson returned home from buying a Gucci hat.
As Kimpson entered his Bushwick Avenue apartment building, Baez came up behind his uncle brandishing a revolver and wearing a white T-shirt over his face and demanded the chain, prosecutors said.
Recognizing his sister’s son, Kimpson said he tore the t-shirt off Baez’s face and said his nephew’s name – at which point the younger man shot him in the left hand.
Kimpson took off the bauble — which he said is worth $20,000 — and said, “You want it, come and get it.”
Baez allegedly shot his uncle in the side, knocking the one-legged man to the ground and sending the chain sliding along the sidewalk.
After plucking the chain from the ground, “He came back and bent down and shot me twice in the back of the head,” Kimpson said.
According to an indictment, Baez admitted his crime when Kimpson’s mother asked him over the phone why he had shot her son.
Baez is on trial for charges including attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
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