New York Daily News

New charge for bomb suspect

- Leonard Greene

A Brooklyn bomb maker who killed a man with an explosive meant for a cop faces a new charge for another incendiary device found in his home, officials said Wednesday.

Victor Kingsley already faces the death penalty for using a weapon of mass destructio­n in connection with the July 2017 death of George Wray, 73, a landlord at the Queens building where Officer Joel Crooms once lived.

Crooms had already moved from the Springfiel­d Gardens home by the time Kingsley left the package bomb. Kingsley planted the explosive in a revenge plot against Crooms, one of the cops who arrested him for carrying a stun gun in 2014, authoritie­s said. That case was dismissed.

Wray died days after he detonated the device.

Kingsley was busted in February. He was hit with a new charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destructio­n for an explosive found in his apartment when he was arrested, according to a federal indictment.

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