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When a son kills his father, even on the spur of a momentary rage, public sympathy and support usually goes with the person killed rather than the killer.
But in a case of an alleged second degree murder a father by his 19-year-old son over the weekend in Brooklyn, New York, the story so far seems to be the opposite.
Hassan Razzaq, 19, was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after police said he stabbed his 56-year-old father of Pakistani origin, Mohammad, in the neck during an argument inside their apartment at 644 East 3rd St. just before 10 p.m. July 18.
The New York Post said that there is great sympathy for the 19-year-old son in Kensington neighborhood where the slain father lived with his wife and five children for years.
Why sympathy for a killer?
Neighbors said that Mohammad Razzaq, 56, was abusing his wife and children for years. One neighbor, Robert Micari, who lives directly across the street from the apartment the Razzaq family lived, was quoted as saying that he went to his neighbors apartment a few months ago and told the senior Razzaq to stop abusing his family, or else he would report the matter to police.
“I went to the father and told him the next time he beats his children and his wife I would go in and beat him and that was about two months ago,” Micari added.
Obviously things did not change in the family.
Police said, according to news reports, that Razzaq and his son Hassan allegedly were engaged in a bitter argument at about 10 p.m. on that fateful night.
Police officers arrived at their n apartment to find Razzaq dead on the floor.
Police tracked his injured and bleeding son to a neighborhood bodega, where they arrested him. He allegedly went to the store and asked for napkins to clean his bloody hands.
Mohammad was pronounced dead inside his home.
The Micaris said Hassan, should not be facing second degree murder charges. “He just reached a breaking point,” Mrs. Micari was quoted as saying. “The screams were unbelievable every day. Should he be charged with murder? No. He needs help. Every child in the house needs help.”
Robert Micari said he would be willing to go to the grand jury and testify about the abuse he’d seen in the family to try to help the son get a lesser charge.
NBC news.com said in a report that although a neighbor claimed that the father has been physically abusing his son for years, police did not confirm that.
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