A violent ex-con who had been wanted by the FBI for two cowardly Big Apple murders had a bizarre message for New Yorkers after getting nabbed by the NYPD on Saturday.
“God is good, God is great,” Jesus Acosta said as he was hauled off to Bronx Criminal court in handcuffs for the two deadly robberies.
The parolee, 31, had been the subject of a manhunt by the feds and NYPD for fatally shooting a married dad of two and wings-restaurant worker in Brooklyn on Aug. 23, then pumping a deadly bullet into a customer at a Bronx deli, cops said.
There is no indication that the slayings involved anything but robberies.
He was caught by New York’s Finest at a Bronx park over the weekend, police said.
Acosta was still on parole after being released from state prison April 23 following 10 years behind bars on assault and felony gun possession charges, according to online records.
His deadly killing spree began when he shot beloved hard-working wings-eatery employee MD Yousef, 44, in the head during a heist. Yousef died at the hospital, police said.
Within 48 hours, Acosta pulled off another armed robbery at a bodega on 149th Street, where he shot and killed 33-year-old Tayvon Shuler, cops said..
The FBI posted a $25,000 reward for the accused career criminal, while United Bodegas of America, a Big Apple-based advocacy group for small food retailers, put up another $10,000, and Acosta was nabbed in the park Saturday.
He was led out of the 43rd Precinct in The Bronx in cuffs hours later, ignoring questions from reporters outside the stationhouse before he blurted out his bizarre first public comments.
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