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Cops Finally Arrest Suspect In 2005 Murder Of Gay Teen Who Was Dismembered And Scattered Across New York

Kwauhuru Govan had to be physically carried into the court room on Wednesday.

After an investigation that lasted 12 years, police have finally arrested a suspect in the horrific murder of a gay teen whose body was dismembered and scattered around Brooklyn.

Kwauhuru Govan was arrested on Wednesday morning on a charge of second-degree murder for the 2005 killing of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, despite screaming at his arraignment hearing that he's innocent because he "can't even dissect a frog."

The 38-year-old had already been arrested back in November for the 2004 murder of 17-year-old Sharabia Thomas, according to the New York Post, and he pleaded not guilty to those charges as well.

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Three days after Brazell first disappeared, his severed limbs were discovered in trash bags inside a Brooklyn subway tunnel on February 17, 2005, with his torso found at a recycling plant six days later. His head has still not been found.

Investigators made a breakthrough in the case after recently linking Govan's DNA to the crime.

The suspect was brought into the court room kicking and screaming on Wednesday, refusing to be fingerprinted and needing more than a dozen officers to hold him down.

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