http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/08/07/2009-08-07_two_brothers_arrested_in_murder_of_holocaust_survivor_felix_brinkmann.htmlTwo brothers arrested in murder of Holocaust survivor Felix Brinkmann
By Melissa Grace and Alison Gendar
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Two brothers were busted Friday in the brutal slaying and robbery of a 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor in his East Side apartment.
Aljulah Cutts, 27, accompanied the accused killer into the home of Felix Brinkmann before the victim was strangled on July 29, law enforcement sources said.
His brother, Hasib Cutts, 30, waited downstairs in the getaway car, the sources said. The elder brother has a rap sheet with 40 prior arrests, with a mix of charges for criminal possession of stolen property, petty theft and assault.
Brinkmann's doorman identified Aljulah Cutts as the man who went upstairs into Brinkmann's apartment with Angela Murray, the sources said.
Murray, 30, was charged with murder and robbery for killing Brinkmann in his fourth-floor apartment. She and a man were later captured on videotape using one of the victim's credit cards, police said.
Police said Brinkmann was bound, beaten and choked after he refused to surrender the combinations to a pair of safes in his apartment.
The killers lugged one of the safes downstairs. Brinkmann's car was also stolen and recovered later in the Bronx.
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