So. Jamaica Man Booked For Murder
A 30-year-old South Jamaica man has been charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence in the strangulation death of his common law wife whose body was found last Tuesday, Mar. 19 floating in the water near the Idlewide Park Preserve in Rosedale, law enforcement sources said.
The suspect was identified by Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown as Carlos Evelyn, 30, of Foch Boulevard, who was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
“[Evelyn] is accused of strangling his wife during an argument that turned physical and deadly. His alleged actions leave their young son without a mother and a father who faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
According to the criminal complaint, Evelyn was engaged in a physical dispute with his wife, Kadie Ann Chambers, 27, in their home last Tuesday between 1:30 and 10:30 a.m.
When Chambers grabbed his shirt, authorities said, he reached out and grabbed her around the throat with one hand and squeezed while using his other hand to punch her three times in the face.
It is alleged that Evelyn squeezed her neck for approximately 10 seconds and Chambers fell to the floor unconscious. Reportedly, Evelyn removed his wife’s body from their house and brought her to the vicinity of Huxley Avenue in Rosedale, where he dumped her body in the water.
Finally, it is alleged that Evelyn cleaned up his wife’s blood from the bedroom carpet and disposed of the clothes that he was wearing at the time of incident and those that he was wearing when he disposed of his wife’s body into a garbage bag and into the trash.
Police removed the body of Chambers from the water at approximately noon last Tuesday. According to the Medical Examiner’s Office, Ms. Chambers died as a result of asphyxiation due to strangulation.
The investigation was conducted by detectives assigned to the 105th Precinct Detective Squad.
Assistant District Attorney Kristin J. Papadopoulos of the District Attorney’s Homicide Investigations Bureau is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Peter T. Reese, bureau chief, and Peter J. McCormack III, deputy bureau chief, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.
It was noted that a complaint is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
