The brother of slain Brooklyn slumlord Menachem Stark is furious that two other suspects linked to his abduction and murder had not yet been charged in the crime.
“Nobody should get away! They should come to justice,” an emotional Joel Stark said Thursday after Kendel Felix was arraigned on kidnapping and murder charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Stark’s other brother, Yitzy, fought back tears after the proceeding.
“Everybody knows that he was a great man,” he said about his sibling, a 39-year-old married father of seven.
“We cannot have him back. The family will always be broken and our family will never be the same as it was in the past.”
Felix, 26, stood with his shoulders slumped and a resigned look on his face but didn’t speak as he was ordered held without bond.
He allegedly confessed Wednesday, and also fingered two alleged accomplices — a man he said helped kidnap Stark and another who helped torch and dispose of his body.
But the two other suspects, who were also taken in for questioning Wednesday, lawyered up and did not implicate themselves, sources said.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) said the borough’s Orthodox Jewish community expected additional arrests soon.
“We want additional arrests, and I know [police] are working on it as we speak, but we want to make sure once these arrests happen, these individuals who committed this horrible act of violence, that they spend the rest of their life in jail,” Hikind said.
Felix on Wednesday told cops he had done some construction work for Stark but had never been paid, sources said.
Felix allegedly claimed that he and his accomplices wanted only to scare Stark and get the money, but that the landlord died during the struggle when an accomplice sat on his chest in the back seat of the minivan they used to snatch him.