In April 2002, Elliot was charged with murder for using a kitchen knife to stab his mother, Bridget Johnson in the chest three times in their East 224th Street home in the Bronx, according to previous reports. The deadly attack took place in front of Elliot's 5-year-old sister, sources told The Post. It's unclear what led to the slaying. Johnson, 42, died a couple of days later.

Elliot was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison. He was denied parole twice — first at a February 2017 hearing and again in December 2018, according to a state Department of Corrections official. But the following year, he was approved for release in September and sprung on lifetime parole two months later.
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A resident at the Four Points by Sheraton — the West 40th Street homeless shelter where Elliot was staying during the alleged attack — said he knew the brute well after spending time with him at another shelter.

"He told me he was [a] diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic," the man, who declined to give his name, told The Post. "He's quiet. He doesn't talk much. He is really paranoid. He has mental issues."

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.

The main findings were:

• Children from ethnic-minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils the only group to perform less well
• This success in education has "transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all"
• The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30
• Diversity has increased in professions such as law and medicine
• But some communities continue to be "haunted" by historic racism, which is creating "deep mistrust" and could be a barrier to success

A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."

While the "impediments and disparities do exist", it continued, they were "varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism".

The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".

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