By Juan Soto
Authorities arrested two men and charged them in two separate murders in southeast Queens last week, police said.
In one case, police arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly shooting his 15-year-old girlfriend in the head inside a South Jamaica home a little before midnight June 18.
Amin Abdullah was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. The DA said Abdullah first told detectives that the teenage girl shot herself. The crime occurred at a home on 106th Road near Ruscoe Street.
“[Abdullah] is accused of taking the life of a young girl who had her whole life ahead of her,” Brown said. “This case is another unfortunate example of the senseless gun violence that seems to more and more permeate our society.”
If convicted, Abdullah faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
In the other southeast Queens murder, a 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his brother to death and injuring his mother before plunging the knife into his own leg June 18, police said.
The NYPD said the suspect, Tony Glover, is accused of attacking his brother, 25, and mother with a knife inside a home at 179th Street in Springfield Gardens.
The victims of the multiple stabbing were taken to Jamaica Hospital, where the 25-year-old victim was pronounced dead. The suspect and his mother were listed in stable condition, police said.
Glover was charged with murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, the NYPD said.
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