An additional suspect has just been arrested in connection with the murder of Williamsburg resident Menachem Stark, YWN has learned.

Ervin Henry was taken into custody by the NYPD in Manhattan at around 10:30AM on Wednesday morning.

As YWN had reported, in October, Kandal Philex and Erskine Philex were arrested, and a week before that Kendel Felix was arrested.

This is the fourth and final suspect police had been trying to apprehend in the gruesome murder.

At the time, YWN reported that Stark was approached and accosted on the street by Kendel Felix and another individual as he left his office located at 331 Rutledge Street, in Williamsburg, on January 2, 2014 at approximately 11:30 p.m., according to trial testimony and surveillance videos. After an extended physical struggle with those individuals, Stark was forced into a waiting vehicle and abducted from the location.

On January 3, 2014 at approximately 4 p.m., approximately 17 hours after the kidnapping, Stark’s body, which had been partially burned, was discovered by Nassau County Police in a garbage dumpster at a gas station located in Great Neck, Long Island.

According to trial testimony, including his own confession, the defendant did construction work for Stark and he and others suspected in the murder believed that Stark owed them money. They kidnapped him with the intention of robbing him, but Stark resisted and was killed when one of the kidnappers sat on his chest. They then drove out to Nassau County to dispose of the body, throwing it in a dumpster, throwing gasoline on it and setting it on fire.

The Nassau County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on Stark and determined the cause of death to be asphyxia by compression of the neck and chest.

(Charles Gross – YWN)