Crime & Safety
Brooklyn Beheading Suspect Mouths 'I Love You' To Alleged Victim's Mother: Report
Kwauhuru Gowan, charged with 2 murders of Bushwick teens and being investigated for other murders nationally, was back in court Friday.
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — The man charged in connection with murdering and dismembering two young Bushwick teens in 2004 and 2005 — and who cops said could be a national serial killer — was back in court on Friday morning for his arraignment.
The creepiest and latest news from the courthouse: the suspect, 38-year-old Kwauhuru Govan, mouthed "I love you" in court to the mother of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, one of his alleged victims, on Friday, according to witnesses.
"Kwauhuru Govan mouths 'i love you' to mom of the neighbor he dismembered in Brooklyn Supreme Court arraignment," court reporter John Riley tweeted Friday afternoon.
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Govan was back in court nine days after he put up a fight in the courthouse and had to be carried in by 12 officers. On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Govan yelled, referring to himself in the third person, that he wasn't responsible for any murders.
"Kwauhuru Govan is innocent!" he screamed to the courtroom, witnesses reported.
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NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce has indicated to reporters there is a chance that Govan could be a national serial killer.
Police charged Govan in February with murder in connection with Brazell's death in 2005. Govan was already in custody on murder charges in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Sharabia Thomas in 2004.
Two additional murders, one in Brooklyn and one on the Brooklyn-Queens border, are being reviewed for possible connections to the others, Boyce told reporters at a press briefing last week. Those murders also involved "disarticulated body parts," Boyce said. He wouldn't reveal the names of the other two victims due to an ongoing investigation.
Govan was arrested in November and charged with the murder and kidnapping of 17-year-old Thomas in Bushwick in February 2004. High-schooler Thomas left her house one morning in February, and she never came back. Her naked, dead body was found inside two laundry bags later that day.
Kwauhuru Govan mouths "i love you" to mom of the neighbor he dismembered in Brooklyn Supreme Court arraignment
— John Riley (@jriley8832) March 3, 2017
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Photos of Brazell and Thomas from Brooklyn DA's office, Facebook, respectively
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