Teen Stabbed To Death In Prospect Park's Parade Grounds

Police investigate the Parade Grounds near Prospect Park, where 19-year-old Jeffrey Jeune was stabbed to death July 8, 2012. (Photo: Aidan Gardiner/DNAinfo)

Brooklyn

By Geoffrey Croft

This morning at approximately 11:50am police responded to a report of a male stabbing.

Police discovered 19 year-old Jeffrey Jeune was stabbed in the torso three times at a Prospect Park Parade Grounds. EMS transported the victim to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead approximately 5 hours later.

Jeune was not cooperative with police in identifying the assailant before this death.

The NYPD closed off Field # 4 as part of the investigation as they believe the man wanted in the crime ran through the area.

According to the police no arrests have made at this time. This investigation is ongoing.

Jeune has been arrested at least 11 times.

It was a particularly violent weekend in parks with at least two shootings.

Teenager Stabbed to Death in Prospect Park Parade Grounds

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Police Take Responsibility For Leaving Bloody Crime Scene

A trail of blood leads to a storm drain left from the March 23rd shooting in Prospect Park Parade Grounds where 23-year-old Julio Locarno was killed. NYPD failed to properly clean the scene which the public criticized. Last week the Precinct's commander took responsibly.

Brooklyn

The 70th Precinct’s top cop took the blame for a blunder that left a pool of blood at a Parade Grounds murder scene last week, according to Courier-Life.

Tricia Bastian said she was strolling with her dog and a friend near the playground inside the park off Parade Place near Crooke Avenue last Thursday afternoon when she suddenly found herself standing in the middle of a giant pool of partially-dried blood and human tissue.

“One of the dogs suddenly started pulling at the leash and sniffing and looking at the ground,” she remembered with horror.

Nearby, a trash can was filled with bloody rags — all of it the remnants of a murder that took place the day before.

City rules require that the Parks Department keep parks in tip-top condition, but Deputy Inspector Ralph Monteforte said that, after his team completed its investigation, it failed to let Parks know it could come in and clean up.

“It’s not the Parks Department’s fault, it’s not Sanitation’s fault; it’s our fault,” Monteforte said at a precinct council meeting on Wednesday night. “That blood wasn’t cleaned in the park and it’s my fault.”

Monteforte said he was told of the bloody mess last Friday — a day after police finished its investigation. The Parks Department got the go-ahead to clean up later that day.

Since then, Parks has been by twice to clean up the area, using brushes, a power-washer, bleach and water.

The macabre mess was the result of the slaying of Julio Locarno, a 23-year-old Crown Heights man and murder suspect in the July 18 shooting of infamous rescue worker Jason Green — who along with fellow EMT Melissa Jackson allegedly stood by in December 2009 as an eight-month pregnant woman suffered an asthma attack and died outside a restaurant Downtown.

Police responding to reports of gunshots at the Parade Grounds at 10:40 pm on March 23 found Locarno lying in a pathway to the park with several gunshot wounds to his head and torso. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital.

Cops are still investigating the murder.

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Man Shot Dead In Prospect Park Parade Grounds

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Parade Ground - Prospect Park. An NYPD Sgt. looks for evidence. Police said Julio Locarno, 23 (not shown), was shot in the head and midsection about 10:40 p.m. on Wednesday on a walkway near Parade Place. The police found him after responding to a call of shots fired. He was lying on a pathway leading to the Parade Ground at the southern end of Prospect Park. He had been shot four times and was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital Center. Mr. Locarno's mother is a Parks Department employee.

Brooklyn

A Brooklyn man accused of killing a scandal-tainted emergency medical technician was himself shot dead in Prospect Park, police said.

Julio Locarno, 23, was shot at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday on a walkway near Parade Place.

Police have not made an arrest or established a motive - but have not ruled out a link to the shooting of Jason Green, 32, the EMT killed last July during an argument over a parking space outside Greenhouse, a SoHo nightspot.

Locarno was charged with manslaughter in that case. The triggerman is still being sought.

In an email to the Daily News, a purported cousin said Locarno, who made bail last week, feared for his life because others accused him of being a snitch.

"He told my father he felt like he was being followed and watched since being released on bail," the email said.

Green and his EMT girlfriend, Melissa Jackson, made headlines in December 2009 when Eutisha Rennix, who was 6-months pregnant, collapsed during an asthma attack inside a downtown Brooklyn Au Bon Pain.

Green and Jackson were on a break at the bakery - and allegedly left without helping the 25-year-old Rennix, telling workers to call 911.

Rennix and her prematurely born baby both died. Jackson has been charged with official misconduct.

In February, Jackson, 23, was arrested for petty larceny at a Westbury Walmart for allegedly trying to steal $50 in cosmetics.

A trail of blood from the scene of the shooting leads to a storm drain.

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