DA fury at elevator slay susp; att’y calls kid survivor ‘liar’

A SWEET 6-year-old boy hacked to death inside a Brooklyn elevator deserves justice, prosecutors said Thursday — while the alleged killer’s defense attorney tried to paint the little girl who survived the attack as a “pathological liar.”

Prince Joshua (P.J.) Avitto and his best pal were off to get ices when “into this elevator stepped a monster — a hulking monster who pulled out a knife and proceeded to stab them. Stabbed the life out of P.J.,” Assistant District Attorney Patrick O’Connor said Thursday in closing arguments at Daniel St. Hubert’s trial.

“Ladies and gentleman, do justice,” O’Connor told jurors, calling P.J. “a vibrant, beautiful comedian, full of life” who “brought joy and sunshine to everyone around him.”

The boy died, but Mikayla Capers survived her 16 stab wounds from the June 2014 attack in the Boulevard Houses in East New York.

Mikayla, now 11, testified that St. Hubert, 30, was the killer.

“I felt anxious. P.J. got quiet and he repeatedly stabbed us,” Mikayla said on the stand last week, holding onto an old Pokemon game card P.J. once carried.

She found herself under attack again Thursday — this time in a defense lawyer’s blistering closing argument for acquittal.

Attorney Howard Greenberg went on the offense while playing defense for St. Hubert, a man he said didn’t do it.

He called the “pathological liar.”

With her stunned family looking on, Greenberg told jurors “the truth will not be contained. Mikayla Capers, I’m sorry to say, is delusional. So stand your ground.”

He said the DNA evidence against St. Hubert was thin and his client had no motive to commit preteen a the crime.

O’Connor insisted Mikayla was telling the truth.

“Did anything about her demeanor indicate she would come out here and lie? How do you get to that? That she’s lying about the person that stabbed her?” he said. “She’s a child — she’s 11 years old.”

Greenberg dismissed Mikayla’s great-grandmother, Regenia Trevathan, as a “crackpot,” and unloaded on the slain boy’s mother, Aricka McClinton.

“Yesterday, P.J.’s mother shed nary a tear when she was sharing her testimony — she told you she is suing for money damages,” Greenberg said.

The New York City Housing Authority settled Capers’ lawsuit in February, after city lawyers heard the girl’s testimony in a civil suit on security lapses in the Schenck Ave. building.

St. Hubert is charged with second-degree murder and could face a possible life sentence if convicted.