East NY Man Accused Of Murdering Queens Jogger

EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — The man charged on Sunday in the murder case of the Queens jogger, East New York resident Chanel Lewis, told the New York Post he murdered Karina Vetrano because he was "angry" with "issues at home."

"I was angry. I had some issues at home. I just lost it. When I saw her, I just hit her and kept hitting her. I hit her and choked her," Lewis, 20, told law enforcement, the New York Post reported.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Lewis made "very detailed, incriminating statements" and described "each step of the assault."

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Vetrano, 30, was strangled to death on a jog in Howard Beach, Queens on Aug. 2, 2016. Boyce told the press on Sunday that Vetrano's body had Lewis' DNA under her nails, on her back and on her cellphone.

Lewis was charged with second-degree murder and ordered held without bail on Sunday, according to public court records.

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