What you should know
- A 30-year-old man from Long Island was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing his 29-year-old pregnant girlfriend in the back seat of his own car and dumping her body on a sidewalk, where she was found hours later by a horrified passerby. with gray sweatpants wrapped around his neck.
- Goey Charles was arrested last month for the death of Vanessa Pierre, a Long Island woman found face down on the sidewalk from the Horace Harding Expressway in Queens on October 23.
- She was discovered dead less than two hours later. Her unborn baby also died.
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NEW YORK – A 30-year-old man from Long Island has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing his 29-year-old pregnant girlfriend in the backseat of his own car and dumping her body on a sidewalk, where a horrified passerby found hours later with gray sweatpants wrapped around her neck.
Goey Charles was arrested last month for the death of Vanessa Pierre, a Long Island woman found face down on the sidewalk from the Horace Harding Expressway in Queens on October 23. At the time of his arrest, NYPD officials shared chilling surveillance video that allegedly shows Charles removing Pierre’s lifeless body from the car, laying it on the ground by the roadside before fleeing.
In announcing the grand jury indictment Thursday, the prosecution shared even more disturbing details. An earlier segment of that surveillance video shows Charles stopping on the highway around 2:50 a.m. that October morning, prosecutors say. He exits the vehicle and then moves to the rear, where Pierre is seen sitting and moving.
A short time later, Charles gets out of the back seat and closes the door behind him; Pierre seemed motionless at that point, stretched out across the backseat. Just before 4:40 a.m., the video allegedly shows Charles getting out of the vehicle again, dragging Pierre’s body out of the car, and dumping it.
She was discovered dead less than two hours later. Her unborn baby also died.
“He is accused of committing a despicable and irreparable act of
domestic violence: killing the young woman who was to be the mother of her son, dragging her lifeless body from a car and then abandoning it next to a road, “said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz in a statement. alleged actions “.
At the time of his initial arrest, Pierre’s family questioned why Charles had not been charged with first-degree murder.
“She fell in love with the wrong man. She was killed for that,” said a family member. “We need the system to work for her. To give that guy what he deserves.”
Friends of Pierre raised memorials for the 29-year-old nurse on a nearby overpass. Those who knew her said they had a feeling that something was wrong with Charles, who controlled every part of Pierre’s life, they said.
“He has 10-15 best friends and he didn’t talk to any of them before he died because this man didn’t want him to communicate with anyone,” said a friend. “She slept in her car. I wanted her, a 6 month pregnant woman, to sleep in a car. What kind of person does that?”
Charles was sent to prison after his arraignment Wednesday night and is due to return to court in February. He faces life in prison if convicted. An email seeking comment from his attorney’s office was not immediately returned Thursday.
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