Carjacker named Jason Butt-Champagne fatally beat one-legged, 65-year-old amputee: cops
A Long Island carjacker with the unusual name Jason Butt-Champagne was busted a year after officials say he pummeled an amputee, stole his car and left him for dead.
Butt-Champagne, 25, was slapped with murder charges Tuesday after he yanked 65-year-old Donald Klune from his parked 2009 Mitsubishi in Deer Park in December 2024 — then kicked him and left him injured on the ground without a way to call for help, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Klune, who only has one leg, was defenseless to fend off the Dec. 11, 2024 assault and couldn’t call for help after Butt-Champagne allegedly stole the car with the victim’s phone still inside, prosecutors said.
A bystander found Klune in the road and called for help, but the Deer Park resident succumbed to blunt force injuries two days later at Sound Shore University Hospital.
Butt-Champagne, of West Babylon, was tracked down the day after the vicious assault when Suffolk County cops found the Mitsubishi in a commercial parking lot, the district attorney said.
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