Manhattan District Attorney Announces Sentencing of Cousin Killer to 25 Years to Life

Khalid Barrow, a young man convicted of killing his cousin in the victim’s NYCHA home in Harlem and then dumping her body in the Bronx, was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison.

In November a jury found the 22-year-old guilty of strangling his cousin Nisaa Walcott (35). The crime happened in February 2022. Prosecutors said Barrow moved the body several times to cover up his role in the homicide and also sent text messages to Walcott’s son from victim’s phone “explaining” why he was not at home and made purchases with her credit card after his death.

“The defendant’s criminal conduct was an unspeakable betrayal.”

Alvin Bragg – Manhattan (NYC) District Attorney

“The defendant’s criminal conduct was an unspeakable betrayal,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Wednesday. it’s a statement. “Khalid Barrow strangled his cousin in her own home, all for his own financial gain. “No sentence can undo this family’s pain, but I hope they continue to heal from this terrible loss.”

Investigators believe Walcott and Barrow had argued before he killed her, according to court documents, he said. Pix11. The reason for that fight is unclear.

Walcott’s body was found in February of last year in a dumpster along a street in the Melrose neighborhood. The coroner determined that the woman she died strangled.

The fake text messages to the 14-year-old son and other family members said Walcott had gone out of town on business and left Barrow in charge of the family’s apartment in NYCHA’s “Lexington Houses” on E. 99th St. nearby. from Park Ave. When family members became suspicious and saw Barrow with Walcott’s phone, they filed a missing person report.

Prosecutors said Barrow and an accomplice took the body from the rooftop where he had hidden it, dragged it to a car, drove it to the Bronx and dumped it on the street.

Cops said when Walcott’s teenage son came home, Barrow was cleaning the floor and the apartment smelled like bleach. Surveillance video showed the suspect entering the building with Walcott, but he never saw her leaving it.

Other images showed him dragging a plastic container to the roof of the building. Seven days later Barrow returned with the help of a second man and was taken out of the building. Cameras later also showed a man throwing it away in the Bronx.

Domestic violence is constant in New York and New Jersey, between relatives, roommates and coupleseven with minor victims.

Earlier this month A Hispanic woman was beaten to death by a teenage tenant in a fight over rent in Queens (NYC).

At the end of November, a Latino teenager was arrested in the Bronx on suspicion of killing three relatives in a home in the Bronx, including his father and little brother..

Also that day, a 23-year-old man was arrested and accused of shooting his parents and older brother to death inside their home in New Jersey.

2023-12-22 18:47:00
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