New charge for bomb suspect
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.