Carlton McPherson, 24, was arrested and charged with murder. Officials say he has multiple prior arrests including one for assault from last October.
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Carlton McPherson, 24, was arrested and charged with murder. ..he has multiple prior arrests and has a long and violent past.
He was released without bail after he was arraigned on an October 31 arrest for assault, menacing, harassment and other charges in Brooklyn.
He failed to show up for court twice and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. He was picked up and brought to court on Jan. 11, where bail was set for $2,000 -- which he posted.
53-year-old Jason Volz lived alone in the Bronx. A neighbor said he just spoke to Volz on Monday.
"I just feel so heartbroken, life is so short, when things could happen at any moment it takes my soul away," said neighbor Sammy Sanchez. "He was an honest person, a sincere gentleman, he always respected me, he held the door for me plenty of times when I came upstairs with my wife."
Carlton McPherson’s family repeatedly tried to get him psychiatric help, but the city turned its back and left him out on the street — until he allegedly shoved a Bronx man into the pat…
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“The city failed Carlton,” his older brother, Daquan McPherson, said in an exclusive interview. “The city is failing all mentally ill people. There’s too much red tape. He just got out of the hospital two weeks ago. We begged them to keep him but they said he wasn’t a threat to himself or others so they couldn’t keep him and they let him go.
“They released him,” he said. “In New York City the mentally ill have two options — either they go to jail or do something that lands them in the newspaper.”
Repeated calls to a suicide and crisis hotline over the last six months also failed to get Carlton McPherson off the streets, his brother said.
