A former World Trade Center worker who “narrowly escaped” the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has been beaten to de@th by three boys — one of whom was just 12, according to officials.
Long Island native Roger Borkum, 64, was found “severely beaten” just before midnight on Oct. 19 in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida, after three teens were seen “kicking and stomping” him, according to an arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
He was found with blood “pooled” around his head and a “blood trail extending down the sidewalk,” the arrest report said.
The attackers were seen “rummaging” through Borkum’s backpack and then returned around 20 minutes later, kicking him “multiple” times, the report said.
Borkum, a widower who was homeless at the time, d!ed four days later from the injuries he sustained.
Three suspects — Justin Curry, now 13, Marcavion Lacey, 19, and Robert Pope, 17 — were arrested within hours of the attack. They were all indicted for murd3r on Nov. 20, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office press release.
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Curry was just 12 at the time of the attack. One of the suspects blamed the attack on Borkum, a stranger, having “dissed” their “dead homies,” the reports said, without elaborating.
Borkum was born in Syosset and worked at the WTC as a consultant on the 77th floor of Tower 1. He was let go in July 2001, meaning he “narrowly escaped” the 9/11 attacks just over two months later, according to his obituary.
His wife, Celeste Borkum, was k!lled in a humanitarian visit to Africa in 2009.
