Despite Lawyers' Protests Levi Aron’s Trial Will Take Place in Brooklyn

Despite the protests of Levi Aron’s lawyers, the court decided on Tuesday to allow the accused murderer of the eight year old Leiby Kletzky of Boro Park to be conducted in Brooklyn.

Aron’s lawyers tried to move the trial venue to the Bronx or Suffolk County, complaining that the enormous media coverage and “propaganda campaign” orchestrated by District Attorney Charles Hynes along with the police department, had caused any prospective jurors from the area to be biased towards their client.

“The DA’s office and the police have fallen all over themselves to poison the public’s mind against the defendant,” said Howard Greenberg, one of Aron’s lawyers. “I wanted to try this case in Brooklyn in front of 12 fiercely independent jurors.”

Aron’s lawyers contend that Aron is crazy and that the confession which Aron, a Kensington resident, scrawled on a piece of paper was forced from him shortly after he was arrested in July.

Pretrial motions will take place on December 21st with the defendant appearing in court, but the trial itself, including the opening arguments are not scheduled to begin until early in 2012.

Levi Aron is accused of kidnapping, killing and then butchering the eight-year-old Hasidic Brooklyn boy in July.

Kletzky Fund Raises Quarter Million in One Week

In less than one week the Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund has raised almost $250,000. The Fund was created by the parents of Leiby Kletzky, Nachman and Esty, when they finished the tradition seven days of mourning, known as ‘shiva’ in Hebrew, for their eight-year-old son, whose body was found mutilated on July 13^th.

The boy was murdered by 35-year-old Kensington resident Levy Aron, and then dismembered and thrown in a dumpster 2 miles away. Part of his body was also found in Aron’s freezer.

Leiby was the only son in a family with five daughters. When the Kletzky’s announced the creation of the fund they said the money would be used to enable “acts of kindness,” especially for troubled children at risk and indigent families. 

Candlelight Vigil Held for Leiby Kletzky this Sunday Night

Organizers are calling for all people who would like to express their solidarity and support for the family of Leiby Kletzky, who was brutally murdered and found dismembered on July 12^th, to gather in Kensington this Sunday evening at 8:30pm.

The gathering of mourners and well-wishers are asked to come to the Kensington playground of PS 230 located at McDonald Avenue at Albemarle road.

Leiby’s parents have thanked fellow New Yorkers publicly for all their support during this difficult time, and have created a memorial fund to honor the memory of their tragically murdered son.

Levi Aron Indicted for Murder of 8-Year-Old Leiby Kletzky

Levi Aron, the Kensington man who confessed to murdering Leiby Kletzky last week, has been indicted for murder. Aron confessed to smothering the boy using a towel, but a police autopsy shows that Kletzky had drugs in his body at the time of his death.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced that, “He (Aron) caused the child to ingest large numbers of drugs.”

Among the drugs found in Kletzky’s corpse were Tylenol and three different types of prescription drugs, including a painkiller, a muscle relaxer and an anti-psychotic medicine, according to the autopsy report.
The city medical examiner stated that he believes the boy died of acute intoxication, and not suffocation.

Mayor and Police Commissioner Give Condolences to Kletzky Family

Mayor Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly paid a ‘shiva’ call to the grieving family of murdered 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky on Monday night.

They spent about 15 minutes in the Borough Park home of the family. Mayor Bloomberg called it “one of the saddest days in the city.”

“It is very tragic,” said the mayor, “I don’t know why God sometimes does some things. The commissioner and I expressed our condolences to the parents, grandparents and siblings. There’s not a lot else we can say.”

When the police commissioner was asked about the ongoing investigation of the crime, Kelly commented that “the investigation was going slowly.”

Levy Aron, age 35, who confessed to the murder, is a resident of Kensington, an adjoining neighborhood to Borough Park. As the investigation proceeds more of Aron’s furniture has been removed from his attic apartment where he lived with his parents, including most recently the removal of seven dining room chairs and a table.

Police Continue Investigation of Gruesome Murder in Kensington

For the first time in three days, since the arrest of Levi Aron for the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kretzky, East 2^nd street, the street on which the crime was allegedly committed, has been opened to through traffic as of Saturday.

Despite the efforts to get life back to normal on this otherwise quiet Brooklyn street, the police are continuing to search Aron’s apartment for evidence which will give police and investigators a better picture of what happened on that fateful day when Leiby was abducted and murdered.

Removed from the home were a series of items including a mattress, box spring, and other bags containing more evidence.

Eight-year-old Boy Found Dead and Dismembered

After what was an intensive, 36-hour search for eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky by police and volunteers throughout the Kensington, Borough Park and surrounding areas, the tragic truth became known, the ‘angelic,’ Hasidic boy was dead.

Levi Aron was arrested after police raided his Kensington home. They found the severed feet of the boy in Aron’s freezer; then the 35-year-old suspect led the police to the rest of the boy’s body, whose parts were dismembered and stuffed into an old suitcase and thrown into a dumpster next to an auto repair shop two miles away.

New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly held a news conference Wednesday about the gruesome incident.

 "This is every parent’s nightmare," said Kelly. "We understand that. This is what makes this case so horrific."

Kelly told the press that Aron confessed to the murder of the boy and explained to the police what happened when they asked him about the boy. Aron told the police that he had ‘panicked’ when he saw the intense search that was being conducted for Leiby, and that’s when he killed him, by first suffocating him and only afterwards dismembering him.