Crime & Safety
Queens Man Faces Murder Charges After Body Dumped In Garbage Bag: NYPD
Roscoe Danielson, 40, is accused of dumping his brother's body on the street and killing his mother in July, according to cops and a report.
QUEENS, NY — A Queens man already accused of dumping his brother's body in a garbage bag now faces fresh charges in what authorities believe was a double family murder, according to police and reports.
Roscoe Danielson, 40, faces two murder counts after authorities deemed the deaths of his brother Kyle Danielson, 31, and mother Cheryl Myrick, 58, homicides, the New York Daily News reported.
The younger Danielson was found dead with a puncture wound in his back and stuffed in a garbage bag July 5 along 104th Street in North Corona, police said.
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One day later and three houses over, police found Myrick dead, authorities said.
Police arrested Roscoe Danielson on several requested charges that day, including concealment of a corpse. But it wasn't until his two family members' death were deemed homicides that police arrested him on two counts of murder Tuesday, authorities said.
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