By LARRY CELONA
March 20, 2006 -- The gruesome slaying of a gay Brooklyn teen whose dismembered body was found in a subway tunnel - once sparking fears of a transit-worker killer - had an older lover whom cops now want to grill.
Investigators recently discovered that tragic aspiring Web-site designer Rashawn Brazell, 19, had a boyfriend who rented a room around the corner from Brazell's Gates Avenue home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The older man - described by cops only as in his 30s and living on welfare - hasn't been seen since the death of Brazell, who vanished on Valentine's Day 2004, the sources said. The man is believed to have moved somewhere down South.
"We want to try and find this guy, identify him and talk to him," a police source said.
Three days after Brazell vanished, a subway worker found his legs, an arm and part of his torso in a blue plastic bag on the A-train line a few hundred feet north of the Nostrand Avenue station, which is close to Brazell's home.
Six days later, workers came across a bag containing Brazell's waist and pelvis at a Greenpoint recycling plant that serves a company that collects garbage along the A line.
His head has never been found.
On the last day Brazell was seen alive, he told people he was meeting a tax preparer, but cops have said that may have been a ruse.
Police ask anyone with information about the case to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
larry.celona@nypost.com
RASHAWN BRAZELL MEMORIAL MARCH--APRIL 15th!
When the NYPD investigated the murders of Immette St. Guillen and Nicole DuFresne, they left no stone unturned. Each case was afforded an appropriate amount of resources from the department. Rashawn's mother, Desire Brazell has a simple question: Why should the investigation of her son's murder be treated any differently? On April 15, the day the would have marked Rashawn Brazell's twenty-first birthday, Desire will demand answers from the NYPD's 79th precinct.
The march will begin at the A train Nostrand Avenue station stop (at Fulton and Nostrand) at 12pm. The procession to the 79th precinct station house will begin at 1pm. There, Mrs. Brazell, along with invited guests, will demand that the police devote the maximum amount of resources to the year-old investigation her son's murder.
Rashawn Brazell in his HS graduation photo.
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