He’s one in every of man’s greatest buddy’s worst enemies.
The crazed, stick-toting Brooklyn vagrant who infamously killed a golden retriever named Moose in Prospect Park three years in the past is again to “terrorizing” each human and beast alike, victims advised The Submit.
Moose’s proprietor, Jessica Chrustic, revealed this week that her canine’s maniacal assassin “threatened to shoot me with a gun” on April 23 exterior the Picnic Home within the park.
“I filed a police report, and nonetheless, nothing’s been accomplished,” she stated. “This man is allowed to exist on this public house and proceed to threaten folks.”
The unhinged hobo lunged at one other lady’s canine final weekend close to Grand Military Plaza.
“I used to be actually caught off guard as a result of it was simply so startling,” stated the newest sufferer who requested to stay nameless and described the person as “terribly aggressive.”
“I used to be simply strolling together with my canine, and he type of emerged from out of nowhere,” the still-shaken pooch proprietor recalled . “I didn’t wish to flip round and perhaps give him a cause to say one thing to me, so I saved going.”
Then, as the girl and her pooch — a 6-year-old miniature schnauzer — crossed his path, “this a–gap made a transfer in the direction of my canine — principally lunging at him, as if he was going to hit my canine.
“He began saying one thing to me about my canine, however I didn’t perceive what he was saying –and wasn’t sticking round to seek out out.”
She pulled the pooch nearer to her, picked up the tempo, and left the park.
“Somebody like that shouldn’t be out in public, threatening or making an attempt to intimidate folks,” she stated.
The dreadlocked creep nonetheless totes a terrifying 5-foot-long stick, which Chrustic has stated he used to pummel tragic 2-and-a-half-year-old Moose to demise on Aug. 3, 2002, she stated. He was by no means arrested or charged within the incident.
After Moose’s killing, Chrustic advised The Submit she was distressed by the NYPD’s “disinterest” within the case. She additionally chided native Councilmember Shahana Hanif for “expressing her best concern for the well-being of the attacker and never the person’s victims.”
Hanif didn’t reply to requests for remark.
“There’s one man in a park who’s constantly terrorizing that house, threatening folks,” Chrustic stated, including she’s reminded of the ache of that horrible day three years in the past every time she sees him wandering across the famed greenspace.
Chrustic has noticed the person a handful of occasions this 12 months.
“My private understanding is [the police] don’t wish to cope with mentally sick folks,” Chrustic stated. “If there was a mentally sick particular person pushing folks onto the subway tracks, one thing would’ve been accomplished by now.”
The NYPD and Parks Division didn’t return messages in search of remark.
