A man fatally stabbed his 74-year-old uncle in the chest during a heated confrontation in a Harlem apartment early yesterday morning, NYPD reported.
The victim, whose name has not been released, He lived there for nine years without sharing the expenses of the house and did not help with the cleaning either, declared to Daily News his brother-in-law and tenant of the apartment, Vernon Terry. “(I had) been trying to get it out for years,” he said.
Police responding to a 911 call found the victim unconscious with a stab wound in the living room of a 6th floor apartment in W. 151st St cerca de Broadway at 5:49 a.m. Friday.
A knife was recovered at the scene and one person was taken into custody for the homicide. with pending charges. His name has not been released, but according to New York Post is about a nephew of the deceased. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
An unidentified woman applied pressure to the wound under the victim’s left shoulder before paramedics arrived, who attempted to resuscitate the unconscious man. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police confirmed.
Terry described the victim, his late wife’s brother, as an unwanted tenant, who refused to leave the apartment where he finally died yesterday. He added that he and his brother-in-law almost came to blows last summer over the state of the apartment’s bathroom and “he did not speak to her again since then.”
He also said that one day he came home and discovered that His brother-in-law had thrown his couch to the sidewalk to make way for a bed in the apartment’s living room., which the victim claimed as his de facto bedroom. “My couch was gone and he had a bed there,” Terry said. He further described his brother-in-law as a lazy player and said that his main objective was to try get rich playing the lottery.
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.
Last night a woman was stabbed to death and her dog was thrown from the 11th floor during a fight with her son, who was seriously hospitalized in Brooklyn (NYC).
Some cases of domestic violence are linked to household expenses. This week a Hispanic mother killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (New Jersey) after receiving an eviction order.
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, at the beginning of 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.
To report a case of housing discrimination or ask questions about this topic, you can visit this NYC Public Defender’s Office page.
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2024-01-20 20:13:00
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