A brutal, caught-on-video beating with a belt buckle and an assault with a metal pipe rocked two Brooklyn homeless shelters over the past three days.
The mayhem began at the Samaritan Village Shelter on Myrtle Ave. in Bushwick at 8:43 a.m. on Sunday.
Jermaine Saint Clare, 44, a shelter resident, was caught in a horrifying video beating another man in the face using his belt buckle — sending blood flying with his repeated blows.
Saint Clare — who served time for a 1999 assault and attempted manslaughter conviction — is charged with attempted murder, according to court records.
In a video posted on YouTube, Saint Clare can be seen bashing his belt buckle’s sharp prong into his victim’s face again and again. The victim, Timothy Jackman, 40, was also a shelter resident, police sources said.
Then, at 9:22 a.m. Tuesday. Malcolm McCorcle, 30, a resident at a men’s shelter for the mentally ill and addicted on Albany Ave. in East Flatbush, picked up a metal pipe and repeatedly whacked another resident, police said.
He head-butted a Department of Homeless Services officer who tried to subdue him, officials said.
In a separate incident Monday, officials found a loaded and stolen handgun in a closet in a family shelter in Bushwick.
