Brandon Elliot biography: 13 things about New York City man

Who is Brandon Elliot?

Brandon Elliot is an American man from New York, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is Bridget Johnson‘s son.
2. He previously lived in the Bronx, New York City, New York with a younger sister and their mother.
3. His sister is 14 years younger than him.
4. In July 2000, he was arrested after allegedly robbing his mother by yanking jewelry from her neck and choking her.
5. In April 2002, he was arrested after allegedly using a kitchen knife to fatally stab his mother three times in the chest in their home in the Bronx in front of his younger sister. For her stabbing death, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
6. In November 2019, he was released on parole.
7. From January 2021 to March 2021, he lived in a hotel on West 40th Street in New York City, which serves as a homeless shelter.
8. At around 11:40 a.m. on March 29, 2021, he was caught on camera brutally attacking Filipino-American woman Vilma Kari, then 65, in front of the luxury apartment Brodsky Organization in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
9. On March 30, 2021, he was arrested and charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count each of attempted assault as a hate crime, assault and attempted assault.
10. On December 14, 2023, he pleaded guilty to first-degree assault as a hate crime and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
11. On February 21, 2024, he was sentenced to 15 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision for assaulting Kari.
12. He was 43 when he was sentenced on February 21, 2024 to 15 years in prison.
13. In an interview that aired on March 12, 2024, Kari talked about him. She told NBC News, “As I told Mr. Eliot, ‘You put fear in my heart’, and that fear will linger.”