A crook was busted Friday in the murder of a 91-year-old Brooklyn man — who died in front of his 100-year-old wife — during a home invasion gone wrong, law enforcement sources said.
Howard Morris — a friend of the elderly couple’s home aide, Suzette Troutman — was one of two goons who hogtied Waldiman Thompson in his Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone in October, sources said.
Morris and his cohort used a cord to tie up Thompson and his 100-year-old wife, Ethlin — triggering the elderly man’s death by heart failure, sources said.
Morris was later caught on surveillance footage fleeing — with a safe belonging to the couple — near their home on Decatur Street, sources said.
Ethlin Troutman eventually freed herself and survived — only to find her husband dead, police sources said at the time.
Morris was arrested in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday morning and charged with murder, robbery and kidnapping.
Troutman, the couple’s 45-year-old home aide — and the mastermind of the robbery — was charged with second-degree murder, assault and burglary roughly two weeks after his death, according to law enforcement sources.
Along with Morris, she allegedly teamed up with her nephew, Dwayne Blackwood, 27, who was also charged with murder, assault and burglary. Blackwood is the other man accused of hogtying Thompson.