For nearly three weeks, a special police task force hunted for a killer who was calmly shooting immigrants at work in Brooklyn and Queens. Then the suspect showed up at their front door, police said Sunday. Larme Price, 30, of Brooklyn, walked into a Brooklyn police precinct Friday and offered to help track down the suspect, police said. Within a day, police said, they obtained Price’s confession and his stated motivation: exacting revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks. Price told authorities he was targeting people of Middle Eastern descent when he shot immigrants from Guyana, India, Russia and Yemen in convenience stores and an all-night laundry over the past two months, police said. Price described the Guyanese, Indian and Yemeni-born victims as “Arabs” in lengthy interviews after his arrest Saturday, an investigator said. He may have shot Russian-born laundry manager Albert Kotlyar because he believed Kotlyar “disrespected” him by asking him to leave the business on March 10, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. Kotlyar, 32, became the third victim of a killer who entered businesses in the morning and without provocation shot men inside at point-blank range. But Kotlyar’s sister questioned the motive police offered. Full Story
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