Neighbors fear suspected killer may have returned to Longwood building

Residents of a Longwood apartment building are on edge after police identified and began searching for the roommate of a 64-year-old man who was found stabbed to death inside his apartment on June 3rd.

The landlord told News 12 that Reginald Copland was discovered with a knife lodged in his chest inside his first-floor apartment at 1006 Longfellow Ave. The suspect, identified by neighbors as Copland’s roommate, remains at large.

Now, neighbors tell News 12 they are terrified after hearing unexplained noises coming from both the basement and the victim’s sealed apartment in recent days, even after video evidence shows the suspect entering the Whitlock Avenue train station approximately six minutes after the gruesome discovery…

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