Bomb ambition
Slay susp built more devices, eyed more targets
A WOULD-BE cop killer had more explosives — and more targets.
The deadly bomber accused of blowing up an innocent Queens man while trying to kill an NYPD officer last July searched for the addresses of a second cop and two sitting judges, a source told the Daily News.
Suspect Victor Kingsley’s online hunt for the addresses was uncovered when cops seized his computer — along with more homemade bombs — from his Brooklyn home, the source said Thursday.
All the targets were notified, but none was believed to be in current danger since the suspect apparently acted alone, the source said.
Kingsley, 37, was arrested Wednesday and charged in the deadly mistaken identity blast that killed George Wray, 73, outside his Springfield Gardens two-family home.
A search of his Brooklyn home turned up two “fully assembled” bombs — including one inside a mailing tube like the Wray explosive, according to court papers filed Thursday by prosecutors.
A third device was recovered from his bedroom, and a police source said two nearly finished bombs were also recovered.
Kingsley’s home stash also included 30 pounds of a bombmaking material believed to be thermite, and another 30 pounds of pyrotechnic “flash powder,” prosecutors said.
The suspect was allegedly targeting Officer Joel Crooms in a feud that dated to a 2014 arrest of Kingsley for possession of a stun gun.
Crooms has his own legal issues, with two pending Brooklyn Federal Court cases alleging that he used excessive force in separate 2014 and 2015 incidents.
And court documents uncovered Thursday by the Daily News detailed a Nov. 26 incident in which Crooms, 32, threatened to kill everyone inside a Brooklyn steakhouse during a fight with a restaurant patron.