Crime & Safety
Prospect Lefferts Gardens Murders Remain Unsolved 2 Years Later
NYPD renewed a call for help nearly two years to the day Stephenson Bonaparte and Hazel Brown were found stabbed to death on Winthrop St.
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn couple's deaths remain unsolved nearly two years after police found their bodies dotted with stab wounds.
NYPD on Tuesday renewed a public call for help solving the murders of Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and Hazel Brown, 59.
They also re-released video from Feb. 7, 2018, showing still-unidentified people walking toward the pair's 263 Winthrop St. home. The video also shows people walk away from the home and drive off in a car.
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Police responding to a 911 call about a robbery found Bonaparte outside the home with several stab wounds, authorities said. They found Brown — who was also stabbed — inside the home, where medics pronounced her deceased.
Medics took Bonaparte to Kings County Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
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The pair owned King Soloman Religious on Rutland Road in East Flatbush, according to the New York Daily News.
People with information are asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or contact police online.
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