The body of a 12-year-old boy was found this week inside a trash can and he was wrapped in plastic, police said.
Police say two brothers, Edwin and Shawn Rivera, were arrested after a road rage street fight in Queens Wednesday afternoon. The fracas was captured on video provided by law enforcement sources.wrapped in plastic was found last week in a dumpster, police said Thursday.
The victim, identified as Hezekiah Bernard, was discovered by a sanitation employee with the Philadelphia Housing Authority on Aug. 23 in the 5500 block of Cherry Street. "Mr. Bernard was 12 years old," Philadelphia Police Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom said during a news conference.He was brutally killed and placed in a trash can. The focus of this investigation is the swift apprehension of those involved in this senseless death."
On Aug. 22, a sanitation worker with the Philadelphia Housing Authority moved a plastic trash container placed inside his truck and took it to a PHA facility where it was kept overnight. The next day, that same employee took the container back to the same spot on Cherry Street where it was found to collect more trash. and a comforter had been placed over him.
On Tuesday, homicide investigators canvassed the area around Cherry Street and handed out fliers with the boy's description of what he was wearing. That same day, members of Bernard's family saw the fliers and later identified the body. Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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