Kristie Miro, a 30 year old woman, was arrested in connection with the death of her aunt from 30 years old, who was found dead in a bathtub in her apartment in East Harlem (NYC), authorities said Monday.
Miro, who lived in a third-floor apartment in East 100th Street near Third Avenue with her aunt Ana Nieves, was arrested Sunday and charged with murder, the New York police said.
Police were conducting a welfare check around 6: 15 p.m. Friday when Nieves was found dead and fully clothed in the bathtub of her apartment, police said.
“The victim had blood on his face and bruises,” said a NYPD spokesman. The specific details of the murder and the motive remained unclear on Monday.
Miro originally did not want to let police in to check on her aunt, police sources said. “The niece was a troubled woman. She was crazy, getting into fights and stuff,” an unidentified neighbor told the New York Post on Saturday. ” She was coming home and he had a broken face or something. I think her aunt was trying to convince her to move out. That’s what I heard”, she added.