Chilling new details emerge in fatal shooting of Imani Armstrong

Chilling new particulars emerged Sunday within the homicide of an unique dancer in Gramercy Park — together with how her accused killer lie in wait exterior her work place for 5 hours earlier than executing her in “chilly blood.”

Suspected pimp Clarkson Wilson — who had not less than one little one with the sufferer, stripper and part-time iHOP waitress Imani Armstrong — then went to a subway station to vary garments and hopped a practice residence to Brooklyn, the place cops ultimately discovered his discarded duds within the rubbish, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment.

Wilson, 44, faces a second-degree homicide rap for allegedly killing Armstrong after she completed up her shift at a Manhattan iHOP early Thursday. No motive has but been given within the case.

Wilson made his first courtroom look Sunday, the place prosecutors mentioned he blasted Armstrong “in chilly blood with one gun shot to the again of her head.”

Wilson may be seen on video first taking a subway practice to Manhattan and ready exterior of the IHOP for 5 hours, prosecutors mentioned.

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Imani Armstrong, aka Crimson Armstrong, was murdered in Gramercy Park.

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Video then allegedly exhibits him following Armstrong for a number of blocks after she will get off work.

He placed on a sweatshirt and a masks and ran up behind her to ship the deadly bullet, prosecutors mentioned.

He then left the scene, modified garments inside a subway station and took the practice again to Brooklyn, authorities mentioned.

Clarkson Wilson, 44, male, charged with 2 counts of homicide, was perp walked from the NYPD thirteenth Precinct after being charged at 7:20am on Saturday.

(Kevin C. Downs for The New York

Cops later searched his residence and located the garments he wore in the course of the killing inside a rubbish bag, prosecutors mentioned.

Detectives additionally recovered two weapons inside a secure on the residence, officers mentioned.

The repeat felon was remanded with out bail after the decide deemed him a flight danger.

Wilson has greater than 20 arrests on his rap sheet, together with a number of for home violence.

Legislation-enforcement sources beforehand advised The Submit that Wilson is a pimp and was arrested in 2018 for slashing a lady for refusing to be trafficked by him.

The sufferer in that incident wanted 150 stitches, and Wilson was initially charged with tried homicide earlier than the case fell aside.

Wilson, who didn’t converse at Sunday’s listening to, is due again in courtroom Sept. 8.