Brooklyn pols Tuesday called for the gunman sought in the noise-dispute double slaying of a father and stepson to surrender — or for New Yorkers to at least “snitch” to help catch him.
“Turn yourself in,” city Councilwoman Farrah Louis (D-Flatbush) urged suspected killer Jason Pass, 47, at a press conference outside the East Flatbush building where Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and his 27-year-old stepson, Chinwai Mode, were allegedly gunned down by the accused man in a dispute over noise.
“Snitch, snitch, snitch,” she said.
“Because remember, these kids got to come back home to this community and go back to school and for the rest of their lives know that their father is not there anymore and that their big brother is not there anymore,” the pol said, referring to the children who Mathurin, a dad of four, left behind.
“Somebody stole that from them because of a little bit of noise,” the councilwoman said.
Cops said Pass confronted his upstairs neighbors at the Flatbush Gardens apartment complex over his long-running noise complaint, with the caught-on-video dispute quickly growing heated.
Mathurin walked up to Pass holding a pair of scissors as the two men jawed — until Pass pulled out a .45-caliber handgun and opened fire, getting off nine shots at the two victims, cops and law-enforcement sources said.
The footage shows him shooting the older man first, then turning the weapon on Mode, who is hit while trying to flee and falls dead in the hallway, according to cops and the footage. The suspect then returns to a wounded Mathurin and fires off more shots execution-style before fleeing the building.
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Mathurin’s wife watched the entire bloody incident unfold in front of her.
“This is not a game,” said state Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman (D-Brooklyn) during Tuesday’s press conference. “There’s no reset. There’s no play again. Once a gun is introduced into a situation that’s something permanent for something so temporary.”
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a briefing earlier in the day that there had been six 311 complaints from Pass’s third-floor apartment about his upstairs neighbors.
Kenny said Pass, who has a prior robbery bust from 1992, remains on the run.
Meanwhile, the suspected killer’s sister told The Post her brother acted in self-defense.
“My brother is innocent,” the woman said. “It was self-defense. “I cannot do this over again. They know everything. Phone recordings. Security coming. They know that they were the aggressors.”
She said they are “a military family” because her father served in Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange — and had been trying to leave the building with help from the VA.
“That’s another fight that I’m going through,” she said.
