Suspected killer of Columbia student was on parole for gang attack, has lengthy rap sheet
The suspected killer of Columbia grad student Davide Giri is a pint-sized gang member with a lengthy rap sheet who was on supervised release from prison for viciously beating a man and slashing his face.
Vincent Pinkney, 25, has previously been arrested 11 times since 2012 on charges including robbery and assault, law-enforcement sources said Friday.
The 5-foot-5, 140-pound Manhattan resident is a reputed member of the Bloods-affiliated Every Body Killas gang, also known as EBK, sources said.
He was released from prison in June 2018 after serving a four-year sentence for a gang assault in Queens.
Pinkney and three accomplices repeatedly slashed, punched and kicked the victim of that attack in a caught-on-camera rampage, court papers say.
The assailants pounced on their victim outside a mixed-use, corner building at 205-49 Linden Blvd. on Oct. 13, 2013, according to a criminal complaint.
The victim needed 20 staples to close a gash on the back of his head and another 25 stitches from his right eye to his right ear, the document says.
Pinkney also was sentenced to four years of post-release supervision in the case — a requirement that is not set to expire until June 27, according to online correction records.
Pinkney’s father acknowledged to The Post on Friday that his son “spent some time in jail” but claimed the suspect wasn’t “known to be violent at all.”
“I don’t really know if he’s involved in gang activity. I really don’t know where he hangs out,” the father said.
The dad also claimed not to have seen his son since Thursday, before the bloody rampage that left Giri knifed to death and Italian tourist Roberto Malaspina hospitalized with stab wounds to his back and abdomen.
Additional reporting by Joshua Rhett Miller
Artmotion U.S.A
