Cops Find New Lead In Murder Case Of Body Found In Manhattan Beach

Police have unearthed a lead that could help solve the murder of he reputed gang member whose body was discovered last week on the shore outside Kingsborough Community College.

The Daily News reports investigators have located the hardware store that sold the buck used to sink 28-year-old Peter Martinez’s body to the bottom the sea.

When Martinez was discovered by student walking near the college, the body was reportedly wrapped in a plastic bag and his feet were stuck in a concrete-filled bucket.

“He was put in a bucket bought in a hardware store, we know where that is,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told the Daily News.

The Medical Examiner has determined Martinez, who had been missing since February, died of asphyxiation before his body was dumped in the ocean.

Martinez has been tied to the 100 Cloccs, an offshoot of the G-Stone Crips, which operates near Martinez’s home in Canarsie, according to the Daily News. His girlfriend told investigators that he owed a lot of money when he disappeared.

However, Boyce told the Daily News that the murder doesn’t appear to be connected to the gang.

“Right now it looks like something else,” he reportedly said.