An individual is in custody following a dayslong manhunt after a Bronx brute allegedly tortured and murdered his 21-year-old girlfriend and dumped her physique in a stairwell.
Princesa Encarnacion-Soto was stabbed from head to toe, probably overwhelmed with a hammer and left to die on a staircase on July 22 on the Fordham Heights constructing on Grand Concourse close to East 183rd Road, cops stated.
The NYPD on Thursday launched a picture of Robert Strother, Encarnacion-Soto’s 27-year-old boyfriend and the suspect within the slaying, after looking for him for greater than per week.
Encarnacion-Soto was staying within the constructing with Strother and his mom, 54-year-old Naida Jorge, who was additionally charged within the case, cops stated.
Police didn’t determine the particular person in custody however stated they have been making ready prices.
They took the suspect into custody on Friday however he was hospitalized, a police supply stated. The explanation for the hospitalization was not clear.
Video launched by the NYPD confirmed the bearded Strother pounding the pavement together with his hand tucked into the pocket of his pink sweatpants, sporting a pink baseball cap turned sideways.
Investigators imagine Encarnacion-Soto was first tied up in mattress and tortured, an NYPD official stated.
“We imagine that she was tied right down to the mattress based mostly on the blood that was on the mattress,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated final month. “The injuries themselves have been inflicted for ache, to not kill. There are slice marks on her thighs, slice marks on her higher arms and shoulders.”
“Those on her legs have been recent,” the chief added. “Those on her higher torso appeared like they have been within the means of therapeutic.”
Strother’s mom, Jorge, allegedly washed the crime scene after the homicide – and was arrested on prices of homicide, manslaughter, hindering prosecution and concealment of a human corpse, police stated.
“She did try to scrub up the crime scene,” Kenny stated. “There was no blood on [the victim] whereas she laid on the staircase, and he or she was in recent clothes that had no blood on her.”
Jorge was held with out bail throughout her arraignment final Friday in Bronx Felony Courtroom.
