Gun-Wielding Man Who Shattered BK Yeshiva Windows Arrested: Cops

EAST FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — A gun-wielding man who was caught on video pistol-whipping a man on the street, ramming a woman's side mirror and smashing in the windows of a yeshiva has been arrested, police said Saturday.

Nerron Purcell, 30, was charged late Friday with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal mischief for a rampage along Lefferts Avenue he went on just a week before.

Purcell, who lived just a block away, had come up to a 23-year-old man near Lefferts Avenue and New York Avenue around 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 and hit the man in the back of the head with his handgun, police said.

Video shows Purcell continuing down Lefferts Avenue, kicking a garbage bag on his way and occasionally holding the gun to his head as he wanders down the street.

Just minutes later, he lunges at a car parked on the street, where a 55-year-old woman was sitting inside, yelling at the woman and waving his gun in front of her window, according to police and video. Purcell then hits the handgun against the car's side view mirror before continuing down the street.

Purcell then smashes in two windows of Beth Rivkah Elementary School with his handgun before fleeing, police said. He was arrested just after 10 p.m. on Friday.