“Why did you kill my son?” Those were the agonizing words of a distraught mother of a Brooklyn stabbing victim as she witnessed the prime suspect in the killing led out of a police precinct in handcuffs Tuesday.
Detectives cuffed 18-year-old Noah Rentas of South Slope for his alleged part in the bloody slaying near Brooklyn’s Barclays Center earlier this month. He was picked up at his home after cops identified him via a student MetroCard he used near the scene.
Cops say Rentas allegedly drew a knife and stabbed 27-year-old Michael Hernandez, who was assaulted by a group that included three other teens on Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues on March 14 around 9 p.m. after some kind of verbal argument.
During the assault, Hernandez suffered a stab wound to the chest and a series of punctures to his back. He managed to stagger away before collapsing.
Hernandez was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, but he could not be saved and was pronounced dead. The murder weapon was later recovered.
As Rentas was marched out of the 78th Precinct stationhouse in handcuffs Tuesday afternoon, Hernandez’s mother Marisol Miranda desperately called out to her son’s alleged murderer, asking why stabbed him to death.
The suspect did not respond to the question as he was led into a nearby police vehicle en route to central booking and arraignment.
Miranda was left “shaking” by the encounter Tuesday.
“My whole body is shaking. I’m so ashamed to say that. It hurts me that my own kind that killed my son, my own kind,” she said while weeping. “What are you teaching these kids?”
She professed her undying love to her slain son and vowed to work in his memory to ease other families’ pain.
“I’m going to become an advocate for other parents that lose their families or loved ones. He will forever live in us,” Miranda added as she clung to a photo of her son.
Rentas, meanwhile, faces prosecution on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
