Two arrested for deadly beating of homeless man at Brooklyn ShopRite: NYPD

Police arrested 2 men for beating a stateless man, who aboriginal died from his injuries, successful the parking batch of a Brooklyn ShopRite past month.

Manuel Perez, 49, and Francisco Corocoj, 25, were some cuffed Friday and charged with first-degree manslaughter, second-degree battle and fourth-degree transgression possession of a weapon, cops said.

The arrests travel much than 3 weeks aft Perez and Corocoj attacked Cos Jervis Jonas Ajpuac, 38, and a 42-year-old antheral successful the parking batch of the McDonald Ave. supermarket adjacent Elmwood Ave. successful Borough Park astir 7 p.m. connected Sept. 18, constabulary said.

The suspects battered some men with metallic pipes and a shot bat, cops said.

The ShopRite parking store wherever Cos Jervis Jonas Ajpuac and different antheral were attacked. (Emma Seiwell)

“They was hitting them existent hard with the bats,” said Stephen DeGrasse, 25, a ShopRite information worker. “One of them had a metallic bat and the different 1 had a cane possibly oregon it was similar a regular stick.

DeGrasse described watching information footage that captured the onslaught arsenic “brutal” and said the suspects took their victims by surprise.

“They conscionable attacked them portion they were sleeping,” helium said.

Paramedics rushed the victims to Maimonides Medical Center, wherever Ajpuac aboriginal died connected Oct. 2, according to instrumentality enforcement. The different antheral survived.

Ajpuac made a wont of cashing successful recyclables astatine the supermarket and past utilizing the proceeds to bargain brew there, which helium would often portion with friends extracurricular earlier sleeping successful the place’s parking lot, according to DeGrasse.

DeGrasse said Ajpuac was affable with his killers anterior to past month’s fatal assault.

“The aforesaid 1 that attacked him, they utilized to cod bottles together. They was friends,” DeGrasse said. “They each utilized to beryllium downstairs with each other, collecting bottles, cashing successful the bottles. They would travel here, bargain beer, portion the brew together.

“It was sad,” helium added. “I cognize each of them. I spell downstairs and I talk to them each the time. Sometimes I bargain them food, chicken, bread, springiness them immoderate water. I was conscionable bittersweet that I wasn’t present portion it happened, due to the fact that it happened arsenic soon arsenic I left.”