""This defendant exploited elderly women who trusted him, gained access to their homes, and murdered them in a series of brutal attacks that shocked the conscience.""
""Gavin later admitted to investigators that he attacked McKinney - but claimed he pushed her 'into a table where a steak knife was located and it punctured her.'""
""In the death of Jacolia James, 83, whose lifeless body was found in her 11th-floor apartment on April 30, 2019, the handyman confessed to choking her, before he 'stomped on her neck three times.'""
""In the last of the three killings, on Jan. 14, 2021, Gavin choked the life out of Juanita Caballero, wrapping a p...""
Kevin Gavin, 71, pleaded guilty to the murders of three elderly women in a Brooklyn NYCHA complex between 2015 and 2021. He exploited their trust as a handyman, gaining access to their homes without forced entry. The victims, Myrtle McKinney, Jacolia James, and Juanita Caballero, were brutally killed, with Gavin admitting to the attacks. He will be sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on May 20, as stated by Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
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