A 68-year-old man fatally choked his youthful sister of their Brooklyn condominium, cops and law-enforcement sources mentioned Monday.
Mary Fagan, 64, was discovered unresponsive in the lounge of the house she shared together with her brother, Thomas Fagan, on St. Johns Place close to Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights round 6 p.m. July 26, police mentioned.
She was pronounced lifeless on the scene by responding EMS staff.
Initially, the girl’s dying didn’t seem suspicious, however a later examination revealed she suffered bruising to her neck, indicating doable strangulation, the sources mentioned.
Town Medical Examiner’s Workplace then decided that Mary’s dying was a murder attributable to “compression of the neck,” a spokeswoman mentioned.
As detectives interviewed her brother – who has no prior arrests – he admitted to the crime, sources mentioned. Cops didn’t present a motive for the killing.
Thomas was arrested Saturday night and charged with homicide, police mentioned.
He pleaded not responsible and was ordered held with out bail throughout his Sunday arraignment, on-line court docket information present.
The NYPD was by no means beforehand alerted to any domestic-violence incidents involving the brother and sister, cops mentioned.
