A 62-year-old man was murdered last night in his apartment in The Bronx (NYC) and his Hispanic roommate was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime.
The unidentified victim was dead with head injuries when troopers responded to a 911 call at the basement apartment on W. 169th St. near Plimpton Ave., Highbridge neighborhood, last night around 10:40 p.m. the police said.
NYPD officers found the victim’s roommate, Angelo Miranda, outside the building and took him into custody. He was charged with manslaughter at around 3:15 am today, after several hours of questioning.
Miranda, 51, had an unspecified weapon when he was arrested, but it was not clear if it had been used in the homicide, he said. Daily News. An autopsy was still being completed this morning to determine the victim’s cause of death.
However, enough evidence was gathered to show that there was some kind of confrontation, justifying the charges against the suspect, a police source said.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
In recent months, several fatal cases of violence between roommates or neighbors have been reported in New York. In December, a 46-year-old ex-convict turned himself in to police on suspicion of fatally shooting his neighbor amid a lengthy discussion about the noise she was making at his Bronx (NYC) residence.
In a similar case, also in mid-December, a 27-year-old model was stabbed to death by her roommate in a shelter in Midtown Manhattan because she was apparently listening to music that was too loud.
In November, a 61-year-old man was arrested and accused of stabbing his roommate in an argument because he had loud music on Long Island (NY).
In September a man who was severely beaten by his roommate in the Bronx died after spending more than a month in a coma. At the end of July, a 77-year-old woman was beaten and suffocated to death in her Brooklyn home and her tenant was arrested as a suspect in the crime.
In May a lawyer who had lost his professional license for misconduct was shot to death in a building for people at risk of homelessness in the Bronx. His “roommate” was arrested for the crime.
At the end of April, an elderly man was stabbed to death by a young woman in the home they shared in Brooklyn, both of whom were Hispanic. In March a young couple was arrested and accused of stabbing his roommate to death in a Bronx apartment after he turned on music so as not to hear their early-morning marital fight.
In February 2022, a subject turned himself in to police after fatally stabbing his roommate during a fight inside their Brooklyn apartment. And in January of that year on Staten Island, a 37-year-old man was stabbed to death by his roommate, who confessed to the crime to the NYPD after trying to pass it off as suicide.