Heartbroken wife of man shot dead with his step-son outside their own apartment over noise complaint says her family is living in fear of killer returning for them: ‘I need justice’
The widow of a Brooklyn man brutally murdered by a neighbor over an argument over noise levels says she fears for her family’s lives.
Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and his stepson Chinwai Mode, 27, were shot after filing a noise complaint with a neighbor with whom they had been at war for four years.
Officials have named Jason Pass, 47, a downstairs neighbor in the building, as a suspect in the killings. He is currently still on the run.
Marie Delille, Bladimy Mathurin’s widow, told it CBS that her husband was not armed with a gun at the time of the altercation.
Delille said, “My husband had no gun, no weapon. Why did you bring a gun to shoot my family? Why would you bring a gun to tear my family apart? Why? Why?
“I need justice.”
The NYPD told Ny Breaking.com on Wednesday morning that officers are still hunting for Pass.
The horrors unfolded before the eyes of Mathurin’s wife, who watched as both her husband and son were murdered in cold blood. Jason Pass is currently missing
Marie Delille said, “My husband had no gun, no weapon. Why did you bring a gun to shoot my family? Why would you bring a gun to tear my family apart? Why? Why? ‘I need justice’
According to the New York Post, the shooting took place on the fourth floor of a well-known residential complex in East Flatbush where Barbra Streisand and the late The Wire star Michael K. Williams grew up.
The terrifying footage begins with a man dressed in black walking angrily down the hallway outside an apartment. As the man walks, a woman in sweatpants and a tank top comes out of an apartment as the situation escalates.
The woman is quickly joined by the man, who is then identified by police as her son Chinwai Mode, 27.
The video contains no audio, so it’s unclear what exactly the neighbors’ back and forth entails.
As the situation seems to escalate, the mother and son are joined moments later by Mathurin, who angrily confronts the neighbor while appearing to wield a pair of scissors.
His wife tries to turn him away from the confrontation, but Mathurin – reportedly an amateur bodybuilder and father of four – pushes her away.
At that moment, the neighbor takes a gun from his jacket, which he immediately points at Mathurin.
Despite seemingly acknowledging the gun, he dismisses it and turns to walk back to his door. The neighbor, reportedly Pass, then starts shooting, hitting Mathurin, who immediately falls to the ground.
Mathurin was shot several times by a neighbor who erupted after a confrontation over a noise complaint – an issue that had come up frequently between the two men who lived in apartments on adjacent floors
The stepson, who was in the hallway and saw Mathurin go downstairs, tries to run from the gunman, but is unsuccessful and is shot several times before collapsing motionless in a pool of his own blood near the stairs.
Pass then allegedly turned his attention back to Mathurin, who was struggling to get up at the time. He shoots him execution style right outside his door.
The man, who allegedly slaughtered two people, looks around the bloodied hallway and then calmly waits for the elevator, which he takes down before fleeing the scene.
According to the Post, nine shell casings were recovered at the scene.
On October 28, the neighbor started banging on his ceiling because of the allegedly loud noises coming from Mathurin and Delille’s apartment.
Mathurin responded by banging back, prompting the neighbor to run up the stairs and kick the family’s front door, the grieving widow said.
“This man hates us with every bone in his body,” Delille said.
A woman who claimed to be the alleged shooter’s older sister said that Mathurin and his family had threatened her mother and brother prior to the incident.
“What happened on Sunday was self-defense. (They shouted) “We’re going to kill you! We hate you!” on numerous occasions. When we walk out and they come in or they get in their car, those are the things they said to us,” she said.
“They tried to attack my brother or sister,” the nurse said. “My brother didn’t just go up there and kill them. We are not problematic people.’
She claims Pass went upstairs to talk to the family about the noise and didn’t attack first.
Mathurin was shot several times by a neighbor who erupted after a confrontation over a noise complaint – an issue that had come up frequently between the two men who lived in apartments on adjacent floors
The NYPD said Pass had called his upstairs neighbors six times since March 2022 to complain. Delille revealed that this feud had been going on for four years.
CBS also revealed that numerous complaints had been registered with the construction management, but neither side could reach an agreement.
Friends and family have revealed they are concerned for their safety as Pass has not yet been found. They fear the shooter could return at any moment.
Brooklyn Councilwoman Farah Louis revealed that Mathurin worked two jobs to support the family.
‘They need a lot of support at the moment. Her husband was the breadwinner of the family, so he paid for her to go to school and for two children to attend parochial school. Now they have nothing,” Louis said.
Pass had a short-lived career as a corrections officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester and was terminated in 2005, according to Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokesman Thomas Mailey.
He was fired from the department after pulling a gun on two plainclothes police officers during a road rage incident in Brooklyn.