Southeast Queens man charged with murder for beating his aunt to death in her South Jamaica home: NYPD – QNS

A Richmond Hill man was arrested Tuesday night and charged with murder for beating his aunt to death with a broom in her South Jamaica home earlier that day.

Alexander Fleming, 29, of 91st Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Wednesday night on charges of second-degree murder and other related offenses after he admitted to homicide detectives at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica that he “struck his 55-year-old aunt Juanita Dallas multiple times in the head,” causing her death.

Police from the 103rd Precinct responded to a 911 call shortly after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday that an assault had occurred at her home on 164th Street near 108th Avenue. When officers arrived, they learned that Fleming and his aunt were involved in a verbal argument that escalated into violence when he grabbed the broom and hit her several times, according to the NYPD.

Emergency services arrived at the scene and took the victim to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead a short time later.

Fleming was arrested as a person of interest and taken into custody after admitting to instigating the fatal beating.

He is also accused of illegal possession of a firearm and endangering the welfare of a child after his 15-year-old niece witnessed the attack.

Fleming was remanded in custody without bail and is due in court on October 2, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office.