Denise Wylie, a 62-year-old woman, was arrested and charged on suspicion of setting her elderly neighbor on fire in a fight over money in Brooklyn (NYC).
The 73-year-old victim apparently had not paid Wylie the money she owed him and on Sunday she went to collect from him at his downstairs apartment on Chester St. near Riverdale Ave. in the Brownsville neighborhoodThe NYPD said yesterday.
The unidentified elderly man said he did not have the money, but promised he would pay Wylie the next day, authorities added. The snub infuriated the suspect, who allegedly He poured gasoline on his face and back and lit a matchsaid NYPD.
The man was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital burn center, where he is being treated. Police arrested Wylie on Monday and charged her with attempted murder at an arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
“It’s malicious,” he commented to Daily News a resident of the building about the attack. The amount of the alleged disputed debt is unclear.
Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims. Every day in NYC, an average of about 747 incidents of domestic violence, including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse, and about 65 homicides annually.
Some cases of domestic violence are linked to household expenses. In mid-January a man fatally stabbed his 74-year-old uncle in the chest during a heated confrontation in a Harlem apartment because he apparently wouldn’t help with rent or cleaning.
Also this month, a Hispanic mother killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (NJ) after receiving an eviction order. Additionally, a New Jersey man and his accomplice detonated a homemade explosive in front of his business rival’s home in New York’s Westchester County, according to police.
In December, a landlord was charged with attempted murder and arson for allegedly setting fire to his Brooklyn rental property while a family of eight tenants, six of them children, were inside.
In a similar case, with a tragic ending, earlier that month a Hispanic woman was beaten to death by a teenage tenant in a fight over rent in Queens (NYC). In November three bodies were found stabbed in a home in Queensafter a landlord showed up at a police station to confess to the crimes in a alleged dispute over late payment of rent.
Days later, an MTA employee and military veteran was arrested for shooting and killing his tenant when he found him masked inside his apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). The suspect did not have a license to carry weapons.
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2024-01-31 14:19:00
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