By John Doyle and Kirsten Fleming
The New York Post
NEW YORK — A violent parolee released from prison less than a year ago was arrested yesterday in the slaying of a beloved Brooklyn liquor-store clerk, who had turned his back on the world of hip-hop to become an Orthodox Jew.
Eion Klass, 33 - who had served 11 years for attempted murder - was picked up Tuesday for questioning in the slaying last week of Jamaican native Yoseph Robinson.
Klass - who at one point tried to escape from the 70th Precinct station house - confessed to killing Robinson, 34, while trying to rob a Midwood liquor store, a police source said.
Robinson was shot after he tried to stop Klass from looting the cash register and robbing Robinson’s girlfriend, cops said.
“I’m glad they caught a suspect. The only thing is . . . I don’t even know why they released him in the first place,” said Robinson’s friend Avraham Silverberg.
Cops had also been looking for Klass in connection with a June 28 assault and robbery of his girlfriend’s ex-lover.
In 1998, Klass was sentenced to nine to 18 years in prison for attempted murder and robbery,
He was paroled last October.
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