The man wanted for coldly gunning down a Brooklyn metal worker trying to stop the thief’s Tuesday morning car break-in spree has been identified by police officials.
Bryan Aponte is the man who wordlessly shot 53-year-old Michael Matusiak after he confronted Aponte and a pal for breaking into several cars around 7:50 a.m. in East Williamsburg, according to a wanted poster tweeted Friday by the NYPD’s Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
Aponte, 20, also hit Matusiak’s 57-year-old co-worker, Derrick Robinson, and Cala Newberry, a 13-year-old girl walking to school, when he opened fire near Knickerbocker Avenue and Grattan Street, cops said.
Matusiak collapsed between two parked cars after taking several rounds to the chest, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Robinson and Newberry were treated at Elmhurst Hospital.
“Mike just wanted to help everybody,” said his heartbroken fiancee, Yvonne Carrasquillo. “If he was would see somebody scratch your car, he would come up to them and tell them, ‘Listen why you do that for? Don’t do that!’”
Aponte’s accomplice was not immediately identified.
Both men are still on the lam.
