Jabari Burrell is a man from Queens New York who has been charged in the triple murder of his relatives. According to police reports Jabari Burrell who would fatally stab Hyacinth Brown-Johnson, 65, her 47-year-old daughter, Latoya Gordo and Brown-Johnson’s stepdaughter, Patrice Johnson. After the triple murder Jabari Burrell would flee to Virginia where he would be arrested.
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A suspect has been charged in connection to a triple murder in Queens.
Police say 22-year-old Jabari Burrell was arrested Friday.
On Nov. 18, a home health attendant found three women stabbed to death in their bedrooms at a home on 182nd Street in Springfield Gardens.
The victims were identified as 65-year-old Hyacinth Brown-Johnson; her daughter, 47-year-old Latoya Gordon, and Brown-Johnson’s stepdaughter, 26-year-old Patrice Johnson.
Investigators determined Burrell was a person of interest, and he was taken into custody in Virginia on Nov. 19. Police say he was driving a car owned by one of the victims
The man accused of a brutal triple homicide in Queens last month was extradited back to New York Friday to face charges in connection with the shocking murders of three relatives.
Police believe 22-year-old Springfield Gardens resident Jabari K. Burrell is the callous killer behind the murders of three of his own family members inside their 182nd Street residence on Nov. 18.
Law enforcement sources said Burrell allegedly went on a bloody rampage inside the family home, viciously stabbing his grandmother, 65-year-old Hyacinth Brown-Johnson, step-aunt 47-year-old Latoya Gordon, and 26-year-old Patrice Johnson, who reportedly suffered from cerebral palsy and spent most of her time in a wheelchair.
Police say each victim suffered multiple stab wounds, including to the head, neck, and chest. Detectives discovered the blood-soaked weapon after the murderer had already high-tailed it. The grim discovery was made by a shocked home care worker who had been caring for Johnson.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, Burrell had driven his grandmother’s van across state lines in an attempt to avoid justice, making it all the way to Virginia where police there cuffed him after running out of fuel on Interstate 95, one day after the murders. Police had been on the lookout for Burrel and soon began the extradition process.
Detectives led Burrell out of the 105th Precinct in cuffs after dark on Dec. 9 where he remained silent and unresponsive to his alleged sickening crimes. The motive for the murders remains unclear, yet sources allege Burrell undertook the frenzy after an undetermined distressing incident.
Convicted serial killer Richard Cottingham who is already serving life without parole for 11 murders committed from 1967 to 1980 in New York and New Jersey is set to plead guilty to five more murders. According to police reports Richard Cottingham who has been called the Torso Killer is responsible for a sexual assault and murder in 1968 and four more murders. Richard Cottingham who towards the end of his killing spree would target prostitutes who he would sexually assault and murder before dismembering their bodies. RIchard Cottingham who is now 76 years old is expected to receive five more life sentences.
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A decades-old murder case could finally be solved in a Nassau County courtroom Monday.
Serial killer Richard Cottingham is due to face a judge for a murder charge that dates all the way back to 1968 in Nassau County. He is reportedly expected to plead guilty in this and four other cases.
Cottingham, also known as the “Times Square Torso Killer” has been found guilty in more than 10 gruesome murders across the tristate area.
Months ago, Nassau police matched DNA evidence connected to Cottingham to the killing of 23-year-old New Hyde Park mom Diane Cusick, who had gone shopping for shoes and never returned home.
Police say Cusick was brutally beaten, murdered and raped in her car. Her father later found Cusick’s body in the backseat of the vehicle in February 1968 at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream.
Cottingham’s court appearance will be virtual because he is already behind bars in New Jersey.
Cusick’s daughter told News 12 that she would be flying in from Florida for the court proceedings.
Cottingham was featured in the Netflix true crime docuseries “Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” just last year.
Tammel Esco was just sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for attacking an elderly Asian woman and punching her 125 times. According to court documents Tammel Esco would start yelling at the 67 year old woman who was walking to her apartment in Yonkers New York. After screaming hate filled profanity at the woman he would visciously attack her causing bleeding on the brain and facial fractures. Tammel Esco would be arrested and would plead guilty to the assault with hate crime factors. Now Tammel Esco will spend the next 17.5 years in the New York Department Of Corrections.
Tammel Esco, 42, was sentenced to 17.5 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision in Westchester County Court in connection with the March attack, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced in a news conference.
In the brutal assault he called the woman of Filipino descent an “Asian b—-” and she was left suffering bleeding on her brain and multiple facial fractures.
“This is a case that has traumatized not only the victim and her family, but also her neighbors in the city of Yonkers, the broader Westchester community and the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community really across the country,” Rocah said.
She said the victim and her family worked with the district attorney’s office all while recovering from her injuries.
In the March 11 attack, the woman was walking into her apartment building on Riverdale Avenue in Yonkers when Esco, who lived in the same building and was outside in front, yelled at her calling her a racial slur, Rocah said.
He then followed her as she entered the building and punched her in the head, knocking her to the ground, and continued to hit her over 100 times, stomped on her body, and spat on her “in a particularly vile act,” Rocah said. The incident was caught on the building’s surveillance camera.
Esco was arrested the same day and has been held without bail since the attack.
Jennifer Wu, one of the pro bono attorneys for the victim and her family, said the victim didn’t want to disclose her medical status and asked for privacy, “as we continue to heal and try return to our normal lives.”
“We appreciate the love and support of the community and the many people who were outraged by this hateful attack. Hate has no place in this society,” Wu said.
Yonkers Police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza said there was no relationship between the two, and the incident was an isolated attack.
“In 27 years of policing, this was one of the most violent and one of the most heinous crimes I’ve ever witnessed,” Sapienza said.
The victim appeared in court to read her impact statement revealing she had to leave her longtime home after the attack and feared for her life.
“Because of the viciousness and hate of Tammel Esco, I lost the place I called home for over 24 years, the place where I raised my daughters, and my longtime neighbors,” she said.
“As the attack happened, all I could think was, ‘Please Lord let me live, please Lord my daughters need me,'” she continued. “A complete stranger heartlessly spit, beat and kicked me over 100 times just because of my heritage… My only hope is that God and the criminal justice system will see fit to make sure this never happens to any other innocent family again.”
Payton Gendron the eighteen year old responsible for the Buffalo massacre that saw ten people killed and three others injured is going to plead guilty to State charges. Now Payton Gendron is still facing Federal hate crime charges though if he is pleading guilty to State charges he will most likely do the same at the Federal levels. Payton Gendron who was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime. Payton Gendron who travelled to Buffalo New York to a predominantly black area would open fire at a grocery store killing ten people and injuring three more.
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alleged mass shooter charged with killing 10 people in what prosecutors called a racially motivated attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges Monday, according to a victims’ attorney.
Payton Gendron is scheduled to appear in court at 9:30 a.m. ET, where he is expected to enter guilty pleas on all 25 counts in a state indictment, Terrence Connors, who represents the families of seven people who were killed in the shooting and two who were injured, told CNN earlier this month. The suspect previously pleaded not guilty.
The hearing was originally scheduled for last Monday but was postponed due to a snowstorm in the Buffalo area.
Payton Gendron is charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime, according to the indictment. He also faces a domestic terror charge and a weapons charge, the indictment shows.
Investigators believe the suspected gunman targeted the victims, ages 20-86, based on race. Authorities have said he traveled from hours away to carry out the attack on May 14 at the Tops Friendly Markets, which is in a predominantly Black community. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black and two were White, officials said.
If convicted on the state charges, Payton Gendron faces life in prison without parole, the only sentence for the domestic terror charge, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said in June. To use this charge, prosecutors must prove five or more individuals were murdered with the intent of racial motivation, he added.
When reached by CNN earlier this month, the suspect’s attorney, Dan DuBois, was not permitted to comment because of a gag order in the case, he said. The Erie County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, is also under a gag order and declined to comment at the time.
“This is a remarkable group of families that I speak for,” Connors said when announcing the suspect’s plan to plead guilty. “The tragedy is still heavy in their hearts, but they’ve turned this nightmare into positive action. From their standpoint, he has become irrelevant to their lives. Their lives have become about making something positive from this horrible tragedy.”
The suspect also faces multiple federal hate crime charges, which carry the potential for the death penalty, in addition to several firearms charges.
Federal prosecutors argue the alleged gunman’s motive was to “prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks,” according to a criminal complaint.
Payton Gendron has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said following the attack that the AR-15 style rifle used in the shooting was legally purchased in New York State, but was modified with a high-capacity magazine, which is not legal in the state.
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The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded three in May in a racist attack at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty Monday to state charges of domestic terrorism as a hate crime, murder and attempted murder.
Payton Gendron, a 19-year-old White man, pleaded guilty to one count of domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, 10 counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons possession charge in the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14. The charges come with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole.
Payton Gendron wore a red jumpsuit and had his hands cuffed in front of him in court Monday. He answered “yes” or “no” to several questions affirming he understood why he was pleading guilty and, on the individual counts, said the word “guilty.” He showed no emotion during the hearing.
The guilty plea ensures there will be no state trial and Gendron will not appeal, defense attorney Brian Parker said afterward.
“This critical step represents a condemnation of the racist ideology that fueled his horrific actions on May 14. Before he is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on February 15, the surviving victims and deceased victims’ family members will all have a chance to address the court, the community and our client directly,” he said. “It is our hope that a final resolution of the state charges will help in some small way to keep the focus on the needs of the victims and the community.
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn described the attack as a racist hate crime and outlined the timeline of the mass killing.
“In just over two minutes the defendant, with the intent to murder as many African Americans as he could, killed 10 innocent Black people and attempted to kill three others,” Flynn said in a news conference after the hearing.
The victims, including customers, employees and an armed security guard, ranged in age from 20 to 86. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black and two were White, officials said.
Social media posts and a lengthy document written by the gunman reveal he had been planning his attack for months and had visited the Tops supermarket several times previously. He posted that he chose Tops because it was in a particular ZIP code in Buffalo that had the highest percentage of Black people close enough to where he lived in Conklin, New York.
The document outlined his goals for the attack, according to Flynn: “To kill as many African Americans as possible, avoid dying and spread ideals.”
Payton Gendron also faces multiple federal hate crime charges, which carry the potential for the death penalty, in addition to several firearms charges. He has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.
Flynn on Monday outside court laid out the evidence against Gendron, which was primarily based on surveillance video from the Tops supermarket and from a camera attached to Gendron’s helmet that was live-streaming the attack.
Payton Gendron arrived to the grocery store with a modified semiautomatic rifle and targeted people because they were Black, Flynn said. At one point, Gendron pointed his rifle at a White man but did not kill him and said “sorry” because the man was White, “thus further demonstrating the defendant’s racially motivated attack,” Flynn said.
Gendron shot four people outside the grocery store and nine more inside before surrendering to Buffalo Police officers who responded to the scene, according to the indictment.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said following the attack that the AR-15 style rifle used in the shooting was legally purchased in New York State, but was modified with a high-capacity magazine, which is not legal in the state.
The state charge of terrorism motivated by hate, passed in 2020, had never been used before in New York.
“No individual in the history of the state of New York has been found guilty of domestic terrorism charge motivated by hate until today,” he said.
He made the case that the gunman had not achieved his goals.
“This racist murderer did not fulfill what he set out to accomplish. He failed. He failed miserably because today this city, this community, is stronger and better than it ever was, and we have shown the world that racism has no part in our community.”
Dimone Fleming is a twenty two year old woman from New York who allegedly stabbed her ten month old and her three year old sons to dead. According to police reports Dimone Fleming would stab the two boys repeatedly before putting them in the bathtub and covering them with clothes. When NYPD arrived at the scene, neighbour called due to her erratic behaviour , they initially did not find the two children however the father of the boys would make the discovery. Dimone Fleming would be arrested and brought to a local hospital. As of this writing the NYPD have not charged her with the murders of her two young children.
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Heartbroken relatives of the 11-month and 3-year-old boys found fatally stabbed in an overflowing Bronx bathtub say their mother, suspected of killing them, is obsessed with demons.
“They were beautiful children and they did not deserve to die. It’s simple as that,” Beverly Hill, the paternal grandmother of 11-month-old victim Octavius Canada told the Daily News. “They were beautiful and they had no reason to die.”
Cops believe the boys’ mother, Dimone “Brenda” Fleming, stabbed them to death. Dimone Fleming, 22, is undergoing psychiatric care and has not yet been charged.
Octavius and his 3-year-old sibling, Daishawn Fleming, were found repeatedly stabbed in the neck and torso Saturday night in a family shelter on Echo Place near the Grand Concourse in Mount Hope, police sources said.
Octavius’ great aunt, Casey Canada, said Fleming had been talking obsessively about “demons.”
“She thought the kids were devils. She said she was afraid of them,” said Casey Canada, who looked after both boys and raised their father, Columbus Canada, like a second mother.
But Casey Canada was baffled why Fleming would allegedly take her children’s lives.
“She definitely loved them for sure,” Casey Canada said. “That wasn’t fake.
Fleming, who went by the nickname “Brenda,” clashed with her own relatives and Canada’s family, Casey Canada said.
“There wasn’t a moment I was around her she wasn’t loving with the children — but with adults she could change in a moment,” the great aunt said. “She just snapped.”
Cops were initially called to the scene because Fleming was acting erratically but didn’t find the young children, who were submerged in a bathtub covered with clothes and a bed sheet, sources said.
Octavius’ father, Columbus Canada, arrived minutes after police left and found the youngsters, then desperately tried to revive them before police returned.
Columbus has three other children from prior relationships who were all close to the murdered two boys, his mother said.
“How is he going to tell them? They’ve gotten close to these other children, to their brothers,” Hill said. “They can’t understand.”
“[Columbus] is not doing well at all. He can’t get over the fact that she did this. He don’t even understand what happened. Who would do something like this?” Hill added. “The whole family is like, ‘Why?’ If you got a problem, you could have said something to somebody. You don’t have to f—ing kill the kids.”
Canada works dutifully to support his children, Hill said, and his family barely had the chance to get to know know little Octavius.
“They liked to play with cars, they liked to play with trucks, they liked video games. They liked to go school and play with crayon,” Canada’s sister Shakira Canada said of the two slain boys. “They liked to go to the park. And now they can’t do any of that.”
Casey Canada helped raise her nephew Columbus, describing herself as like a second mom to him, and enjoyed visits from him and the two slain boys.
“Octavius would never cry — and you know babies, they cry about everything…. He was a happy go-lucky happy baby,” Casey Canada said. “Daishawn just wanted to play with toys. When he came over, he just wanted to play with blocks.”
Hill said she didn’t want to speculate on Fleming’s motives.
“I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know is that my grandkids are f—ing dead,” she said.
“They shouldn’t have died. That shouldn’t have happened. And her a– ain’t dead. She should have killed her own f—ing self.”
A mother is in custody after an 11-month-old boy and a 3-year-old boy were stabbed to death in the Bronx Saturday evening.
New York police responded to a call of an emotionally disturbed person at a family shelter apartment around 7:20 p.m. When they arrived, they found a 24-year-old naked woman acting erratic but not in a violent manner.
Officers were told the woman “was trying to burn items inside of the kitchen area,” Deputy Chief Louis De Ceglie of Patrol Borough Bronx said during a press briefing.
The woman was taken into custody for a psychological evaluation. Before leaving for the hospital, a family friend told officers the children were with their father.
The woman was taken from the premises at approximately 7:50 p.m. Roughly five minutes later, a second 911 call from the same location reported two babies not breathing. Officers returned to the apartment and found the boys with multiple stab wounds to their necks and torsos, unresponsive.
Officers and a family member tried to resuscitate the children while awaiting an ambulance, which took them to a hospital where they died, police said.
De Ceglie said the father is not in custody, and that the mother is in custody as a person of interest.
A mother has been charged with murder in the stabbings of two small children in a Bronx apartment, police said Monday.
Dimone Fleming, 22, is accused of killing 11-month-old Octavius Fleming-Canada and 3-year-old Dashawn Fleming, who were found with multiple stab wounds on Saturday in the apartment in the Mount Hope neighborhood were the family had been living. The children were pronounced dead at a hospital.
Fleming, the boys’ mother, was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and arrested there Sunday, police said in a news release. It wasn’t clear if Fleming had an attorney who could comment on the charges against her.
The boy’s grandfather said he spoke to Fleming just an hour before the unthinkable happened. He’s been struggling, along with the rest of the Bronx community, to make sense of what happened.
“Something’s not adding up here,” Dwane Fleming told News 4 by phone from Pennsylvania. he told News 4 by phone Sunday. “I called her about an hour, hour and a half before it even happened. She let on that she wasn’t comfortable in her relationship.”
Authorities have said the baby boys were found in a bathtub, stabbed multiple times. Officers responded to a report of a “female acting erratic, but non-violent, with no weapons” around 7:20 p.m., Deputy Chief Louis De Ceglie of Patrol Borough Bronx said during a press briefing late Saturday.
Police were told a woman was trying to burn items in the kitchen and found her in the third-floor apartment “acting irrational,” De Ceglie said.
She was taken into custody without incident until the arrival of an ambulance, which transported her to St. Barnabas Hospital for evaluation at about 7:50 p.m.
De Ceglie said officers and a family member tried to resuscitate the children while awaiting an ambulance, which took them to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center where they died.
“It’s about two kids that got murdered. But the way I think about it, I’m losing three,” Fleming said.
Brittany Hudson is close with the family. Standing near the growing memorial outside the Mount Hope apartment complex, she still can’t believe what happened.
“The 11-month-old was new to the world, but the 3-year-old he was very smart, always sharing with my sons, that’s how they became close,” Hudson said.
The city’s Department of Social Services, which runs the family shelter where Fleming lived, issued a statement: “This is an incredibly heart-breaking and shocking tragedy. We offer our deepest condolences to all who have been impacted and stand ready to provide them with any support they need during this incredibly difficult time.”
The boys’ grandfather still does not know what happened, and said his daughter has never shown any behavior like what’s she been accused of doing.
“My grandbabies are innocent, they didn’t deserve this. I want justice to be done and served. And even if my daughter did this, she has to pay the consequences — but I’m not going to stop loving her as a father,” he said.
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