A Richmond Hill man was arrested on Tuesday night and criminally charged with murder for beating his aunt to death with a broom at her South Jamaica home earlier that day.
Alexander Fleming, 29, of 91st Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in the second degree and other related crimes after he admitted to homicide detectives at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica that he struck 55-year-old aunt Juanita Dallas “multiple times about her head,” causing her death.
Police from the 103rd Precinct responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress at her home on 164th Street near 108th Avenue just after 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Upon arrival, officers learned that Fleming and his aunt were engaged in a verbal dispute that escalated into violence when he grabbed the broom and struck her several times, according to the NYPD.
EMS arrived at the crime scene and rushed the victim to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead a short while later.
Fleming was taken in as a person of interest and was taken into custody after admitting that he induced the fatal beating.
He is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child after his 15-year-old niece witnessed the attack.
Fleming was remanded into custody without bail and is ordered to return to court on Oct. 2, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office.
