Breakthrough Possible in Decade-Old Brooklyn Murder

• Pictured: Bed-Stuy murder victim Chanel Petro-Nixon. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — More than 10 years after her unsolved murder in Crown Heights, the family of Bed-Stuy teenager Chanel Petro-Nixon is again calling for any information that could lead to the capture of her killer.

Meanwhile, a man reported as a "person of interest" in the case has been charged with murder on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, according to Pix11.

Petro-Nixon was 16 when she disappeared on June 18, 2006.

Before leaving her Bed-Stuy home, Petro-Nixon told her parents that she was going to apply for a job at a neighborhood Applebee's, the New York Daily News reported.

In a tragic end to her family's search, Petro-Nixon was found dead four days later in a garbage bag outside 212 Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.

A June 18 rally is planned for the site where her body was found.

The event will begin at 11 a.m. It's being organized by the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition, a community group led by Rev. W. Taharka Robinson that focuses on preventing violent crime in the borough.

Robinson said the gathering will celebrate Petro-Nixon's life, and will "call for individuals in the community to come forth with information [on the murder] if they have information."

The rally is being planned just as a potentially major development in the case unfolds abroad.

As reported by Pix11, a man identified by the station as a "person of interest" in connection to Petro-Nixon's murder, 29-year-old Veron Primus, was recently arrested and charged with murder on the island of St. Vincent.

According to the news station, Primus — who went to middle school with Petro-Nixon and planned to meet her at Applebee's on the day she disappeared — is now accused of fatally stabbing St. Vincent realtor Sharleen Graves, a murder with "eerie similarities" to Petro-Nixon's.

Primus is also under investigation for the three-month abduction of another St. Vincent woman, 24-year-old Mewanah Hadaway, according to the St. Vincent news site iWitness News.

Primus was deported to St. Vincent last year after serving a prison sentence for violating a restraining order, the New York Daily News reported.

In 2006, police failed to collect DNA evidence linking Primus to Petro-Nixon's murder, Pix11 reported.

The NYPD did not return a request for comment Tuesday on whether he was a suspect in the case.

Primus has not admitted to killing Petro-Nixon. However, Rev. Robinson said he hoped that would change.

"We're praying and hoping that between now and the rally, we get a confession out of him," Robinson said Tuesday.