A 64-year-old girl was discovered murdered with {an electrical} wire wrapped round her neck on the bloody entrance steps of her Queens dwelling Thursday — and the suspect, a landscaper greater than 20 years her junior, was caught red-handed, cops and sources mentioned.
Juliet Kashidas-Singh, 64, was unconscious and unresponsive when police responded to a 911 name outdoors her dwelling on 103rd Avenue close to one hundred and fifth Avenue in Ozone Park round 5:20 p.m., police mentioned.
{An electrical} wire had been wrapped round her neck, in line with legislation enforcement sources.
Her alleged killer, Francisco Sevilla, 40, was arrested hours later, at round 1 a.m. Friday — when he was discovered strolling round with blood on his palms, sources mentioned.
He was charged with first-degree homicide and legal possession of a weapon, cops mentioned.
However Sevilla informed investigators he was “under the influence” and doesn’t bear in mind something, the sources mentioned.
The entrance of the sufferer’s dwelling — an in any other case tranquil area with a tidy backyard — was marred with blood stains on the steps, a half-eaten apple, a person’s pockets and a towel strewn on the bottom Friday morning.
Singh and Sevilla had labored in building collectively and have been preventing over $300 that the sufferer apparently owed him, sources mentioned.
A 73-year-old neighbor named Dave, who has lived down the block from the sufferer for greater than 30 years, mentioned Singh owned a landscaping enterprise together with her earlier husband.
After the pair separated or divorced, one other man began coming round extra usually.
“I don’t think she knew how to drive. I think she hired this person to work with her and to drive her around,” Dave mentioned. “I don’t know if they became friendly after that. … The guy has been [around] for two or three years now.”
Subsequent-door neighbor Navid Persaud, 44, who additionally works in building, mentioned he got here dwelling from work to search out an ambulance and police automobiles outdoors.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” mentioned Persaud, who moved in three years in the past. “When I came up my steps, I looked over, and I saw her lying in front of her door. I said, ‘Oh, s–t, she’s dead. Her body was not moving. Her feet were facing the door, and her head was on the steps. She was laying on her back. Her clothes were pulled up. I couldn’t see her face.”
The visibly upset neighbor mentioned he was “shocked” on the lethal violence.
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“She was a nice lady,” he mentioned of Singh. “One thing like this occurred to my neighbor, a very good particular person. That is loopy, man. Who’s gonna do one thing like that to her?
“It has to be someone she knew. She didn’t open her door to strangers.”
Persaud recalled {that a} youthful landscaping employee was usually in his neighbor’s firm.
“I always see her with a man. He looks Hispanic to me, and younger than her,” Persaud mentioned. “It seems he does landscaping. I see him coming out with his tools. He drives a truck and two cars. He doesn’t really use the truck. It’s always parked outside the house.”
“She didn’t drive so it was just him taking her in and out … to doctor’s appointments,” he mentioned. “I’ve never spoken to him.”
He described his slain neighbor as “sickly” and recalled that she had a house well being aide who got here to assist her.
One other neighbor, a 24-year-old girl who didn’t need to be recognized, mentioned that Singh had suffered from breast most cancers however gave the impression to be in remission, “but she also used to tell me that she was not feeling well.”
Singh, initially from Guyana, had a son who lived in Georgia, she mentioned.
The neighbor added that she was “glad” the alleged killer was arrested “because what happened to her, she did not deserve it, she really did not deserve it.”
“Just bring him to justice, that’s it,” she mentioned of the suspect.
One other neighbor mentioned she didn’t know the sufferer however was so rattled by the vicious slaying that it left her in tears.
“It’s our community. It’s our neighbor,” mentioned the girl, who additionally declined to offer her identify. “We’re family here. It’s just a tragedy. It really is, you know.”
“It’s just mind-boggling that this could happen here,” she mentioned, her voice cracking.
