Cops on Wednesday finally arrested a man in the gruesome cold-case slaying of a gay Brooklyn teen whose body was dismembered and dumped around the city — and said there is “a great possibility” he may be a serial killer.
Kwauhuru Govan, 38, who was already locked up on another slay rap involving a Brooklyn girl, was arrested at 10 a.m. at Rikers Island on a charge of second-degree murder for the 2005 slaying of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, sources said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce, asked by reporters whether Govan could be a serial killer, replied, “There’s a great possibility that might be the case.
“We’re looking into other cases he might be involved in,” Boyce said, noting that Govan lived in Florida, California and Brooklyn.
During what was supposed to be his arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court, a cuffed Govan was dragged in the courtroom by officers while screaming, “They’re framing me for this murder! I can’t even dissect a frog!”
Govan claimed to Judge Neil Firetog that he was roughed up and assaulted by officers.
“To assault me and punch me in my face, I don’t think President Trump would allow this,” he said. “Wow. I don’t think you’ll be sitting on your bench very long.’’
The judge did not immediately arraign Govan because he refused to be finger-printed.
The severed limbs of Brazell, an aspiring Web-site designer, were found on subway tracks Feb. 17, 2005 – three days after he disappeared – prompting fears at the time that there was a killer transit worker on the loose.
A transit worker made the gruesome discovery inside a blue plastic bag.
Brazell’s torso turned up at a recycling plant six days later. His head was never found.
On the last day that Brazell was seen alive, he told people he was meeting a tax preparer, but cops have said that may have been a ruse.
Brazell’s mother Desire told reporters Tuesday, “I’m ready for what the next step may be.”
Govan had already been arrested in November for the 2004 murder of 17-year-old Sharabia Thomas.
Thomas was last seen by her younger sister, Rachel, on Feb. 11, 2004, as Rachel left for school. Her naked body was found hours later abandoned in a Bushwick alley, bent and stuffed into a laundry bag.
In that case, Govan was arrested after the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad and the DA’s Forensic Science Unit sought out and re-tested the victim’s 12-year-old fingernail clippings — and allegedly found traces of the suspect’s DNA under them.
When cops picked up Govan for Thomas’s murder he was serving time in a Florida prison on a 2014 armed robbery conviction.
In 2004, he lived two blocks away from Thomas’s family home in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Govan pleaded not-guilty charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the Thomas murder case.
In total, Govan has 19 prior arrests on his record dating back to 1996, including for a 2007 burglary and a 2010 criminal possession of a weapon.