Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing His 85-Year-Old Grandmother

Overview

• Police charged 22-year-old Jackson King on Friday night with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the Jan. 13 stabbing of 85-year-old Julia Boomer.
• The attack occurred just before 10 p.m. inside their shared apartment at 638 Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Boomer died at Kings County Hospital.
• Court records list a Saturday morning arraignment in Kings County Criminal Court.
• Officers say the victim’s daughter found Boomer with multiple stab wounds, and investigators are treating the case as tied to a domestic dispute.
• Police and court papers show King had multiple arrests last year involving his girlfriend, including grand larceny, criminal mischief and violations of an order of protection, and precinct data indicate this is the 79th’s first homicide of 2026.