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Feb 24, 2024, 10:47 AM EST

Phill Cayenne was found dead with bruises on his neck inside his apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) and his roommate was taken into police custody, reported News 12.

A home health care worker caring for residents of an apartment on Bay 29th St. near Bath Ave. in Bath Beach found the victim’s body sitting on his couch around 2:50 p.m. Thursday and paramedics shortly afterward They officially declared him dead. The detained person is 38 years old and has not been identified or charged.

Officers who responded to the scene found bruising on Cayenne’s neck, but were awaiting the results of an autopsy before determining whether his death was a homicide, he said. DailyNews. At least one other person lived in that apartment, police said, without providing further details.

Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims. Every day in NYC, an average of 747 incidents of domestic violence are reported, including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse, and about 65 homicides annually.

This week a man was charged on suspicion of killing his sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan as she sat next to her father at a home in Erwin, Steuben County, New York.

Days before, a 46-year-old Hispanic man died after a brutal beating near his apartment in The Bronx (NYC) after an alleged dispute with the superintendent of his building and two other subjects, according to police sources.

In a similar case, in December a grand jury in Queens (NYC) indicted Kevin Ogara for involuntary manslaughter and criminal negligence for allegedly pushing his 60-year-old neighbor René Montalvo Peredo down a staircase in his apartment building. Apparently the immigrant from Bolivia came home drunk and knocked on the wrong door by mistake.

In January, a 73-year-old man who suffers from mental illness was burned by a violent neighbor to whom he owed $100, a debt he had already paid, according to his sister.

At the end of November, an elderly man was stabbed to death by his roommate during a bloody fight at a nursing home in Midtown West, Manhattan (NYC). In early October, a 41-year-old man was shot during a fight between neighbors in Staten Island (NYC), just 30 hours after a double homicide in Upper Manhattan.

In September, 81-year-old Frank Pompilii was stabbed to death while trying to break up a fight between neighbors down the block from his home on Staten Island.

After being searched for six months, in September a man was arrested on suspicion of shooting his roommate to death in the apartment they shared in Harlem (NYC), in an apparent argument over a soda.

In August, a mother was attacked with a hammer by her “roommate,” who left her two children seriously injured in Brooklyn (NYC). Days before, a 57-year-old man who was left in a coma several weeks after being punched by a neighbor and falling on Staten Island (NYC) died from his injuries.

In June, Terrence González died at the age of 31 in a New York prison where he was serving a sentence for fatally shooting his neighbor Lateef Butler in Yonkers.

In May, a suspect turned himself in to police for allegedly shooting his neighbor in the Bronx. Another man died upon returning home after spending 11 days hospitalized after being stabbed by his Hispanic neighbor in that same county.

In March, a woman stabbed her neighbor, a 27-year-old father of two, to death during an alleged argument over noise in a building in the Bronx. At the end of January, a 62-year-old man was murdered in his apartment in the Bronx and his Latino roommate was arrested as a suspect.

In December 2022, a 46-year-old ex-convict turned himself in to police on suspicion of fatally shooting his neighbor in the middle of a long argument about the noise he was making at his residence in the Bronx. Also that month, a 27-year-old model was stabbed to death by her roommate at a shelter in Midtown Manhattan because she was apparently listening to loud music.

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