Jailer-slay arrest
Victim’s ex-beau found cowering in closet
The man suspected of gunning down his city correction-officer ex-girlfriend in Brooklyn was picked up on an unrelated charge Wednesday after he was found hiding in a closet, law-enforcement sources said.
Gangbanger Keon “Trini” Richmond was apprehended at around 1 p.m. by the New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, whose team found him in the home of an acquaintance in Flatlands, sources said.
He was picked up for allegedly torching a car belonging to another ex-girlfriend, but cops planned to quiz him about the slaying of former gal pal Alastasia Bryan, according to sources.
Bryan, a newly minted corrections officer, was gunned down while sitting in her car Dec. 4 in Flatlands, police said.
The shooter, who was lying in wait for her, fired five bullets at Bryan, striking her in the head and torso, killing her instantly. The gunman then hopped into his car and sped away. Bryan was laid to rest Tuesday. Richmond — a high-ranking member of the Pay Back Crips street gang who has 30 prior arrests — is believed to have been seething that Bryan, 25, recently had him busted for stealing her car, the sources said.
She had leased the 2010 BMW 750, and he took it, the sources said. When he allegedly refused to give it back, she reported it stolen.
Richmond was arrested on Nov. 2 and charged with grand larceny auto. He has a court hearing on the incident in January. Bryan also made a report against her ex in May 2015, accusing him of making death threats against her, the sources said.
At the time, she was working as a security guard at Kingsborough Community College and was so afraid he would try to hurt her that the school put another worker on duty with her, according to sources.
Richmond is a native of Trinidad and is in the United States illegally, according to sources.
He has a long rap sheet, including for firing shots at two men in Flatbush in 2004, sources said.
The sources also said Richmond spent 15 months in a city jail for another offense and was released in June 2013 to Immigration and Naturalization Service officials for deportation. But he somehow stayed in the country.
He was being questioned at the 63rd Precinct station house in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, the sources said.