Inmate Threatens Kelly’s Life

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

A Rikers Island inmate is charged with offering a contract hit for Ray Kelly. Police say David Brown tried to pay an undercover officer $65,000 to kill the Police Commissioner and bomb police headquarters in lower Manhattan.

47-year-old Brown, of Brooklyn, was arrested yesterday for criminal solicitation. In taped phone and in-person interviews at Rikers last month, the inmate told the undercover officer that he'd pay $15,000 for Kelly's murder as revenge for the police shooting for Sean Bell.

Brown was convicted in 2001 of attempted murder of his wife and is currently serving time for violation of an order of protection against her. He was convicted previously on a total of 30 charges, 14 of them felonies, including 5 violent crimes.

WNYC is funded by sponsors and member donations

Top Stories

Mamdani says NYC will investigate every tenant heat complaint starting this October

It's a change from city policy that allowed the city to close out thousands of complaints without looking into them further, if multiple came from one building.
Gothamist |

How Extinction Entered the AI Debate

And human debaters face-off with chatbots
On the Media |

What's in Your Storage Locker?

David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about the business of storage lockers and why so many Americans have them.
The Brian Lehrer Show |

Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing.” Plus, Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”

The New Yorker staff writer believes that under-policing is at the root of our problem. Plus, the groundbreaking d.j. on the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop.
The New Yorker Radio Hour |
YOU ARE ONLINE