Murder of Rashawn Brazell
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The Murder of Rashawn Brazell has become one of the most horrific murder cases in the state of New York.[citation needed]
In February 2005, after disappearing from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 19-year-old Brazell's dismembered body parts were found in garbage bags strewn throughout the borough.[citation needed] Though his story was initially refused coverage in most mainstream media outlets, it incited responses from bloggers and activists argued that his murder received limited coverage because he was a black gay working-class male.[citation needed]
Rashawn's family reported that on the morning of February 14, 2005, Rashawn was scheduled to meet his accountant and then meet his mother for lunch in Manhattan.[citation needed] At 7:30 that morning, an unknown person rang the apartment building's security buzzer and Rashawn went down to meet him.[citation needed] According to other witnesses, Rashawn met a man outside his Brooklyn, New York apartment and the two men entered the subway together at the Gates Avenue J Line.[citation needed] Witnesses believe the two exited at the Nostrand Avenue A Line in Bedford Stuyvesant a short time later.[citation needed] Rashawn was never seen alive again.
America's Most Wanted profiled the case three times, on September 29, 2005; April 1, 2006; and December 9, 2006.[1]
