Suspect tracked down from video

The 35-year-old Brooklyn man who police said killed and dismembered an 8-year-old schoolboy is a divorced former security guard who lives alone in the attic apartment of a house occupied by his parents and other relatives, New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday. Levi Aron lived in Brooklyn for about two years after living in Memphis, where he worked as a security guard for two years, Kelly said. He is employed as a clerk at a building supply company in Brooklyn.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said the man later identified as Aron was tracked using surveillance video taken at a Brooklyn dentist's office about the time the boy, Leiby Kletzky, disappeared. He said, "Detectives located one of the dentists who worked there ... and established that the suspect had been in the dentist's office on Monday to pay a bill." Police said that, with the assistance of a receptionist and another dentist associated with the practice, detectives tracked down records, found the name and address of the suspect, and went to his home, where he was arrested.