By The newspaper
Mar 30, 2024, 12:29 PM EDT
Deshawn Coggins, a 36-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting his mother in the head last night inside their Queens home.
Natalie Coggins, 61, was found dead on the floor inside her home at 160-46 121st Ave. near Long St., about a block from Baisley Pond Park, in the Jamaica neighborhood, around 9:30 a.m. pm on Good Friday, he indicated Daily News.
Police immediately focused on her son, who witnesses said fled the home shortly before his mother’s body was discovered. He was later arrested in Brooklyn with the gun used in the shooting, police said.
The son was charged with murder and weapons possession after questioning. His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Saturday.
The motive for the killing was not immediately revealed. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
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 – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and about 65 homicides are reported annually.
Earlier this week, a 26-year-old athlete was accused of killing her mother by hitting her with a pot in their home in The Bronx (NYC).
In early March, a son was arrested on suspicion of killing his mother in their home in New Jersey. Last month, a man was accused of killing her sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan as she sat next to her father at a home in Erwin, New York.
Also in February, a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was shot to death by her partner, who then committed suicide in the victim’s apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). Earlier that month, a mother died and her two children were injured after a gunman opened fire on the family inside an apartment in the Bronx (NYC).
In January, a man was arrested a day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of strangling her at her home in Staten Island (NYC). Also that month, a man and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) in an apparent murder-suicide. Days before, a Hispanic woman killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (NJ) after receiving an eviction order, authorities reported.
If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:
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- Call 911, 988 or (800)-942-6906.
- Text “WELL” to 65173.
- Review information at https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/es/ and www.988lineadevida.org