NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Bronx man has been indicted in connection to the 1996 murder of a 36-year-old pregnant woman, authorities announced Thursday.
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Jasmine Porter was strangled in her apartment at 1706 Davidson Avenue in Morris Heights on Feb. 5, 1996 and her killer remained at large for nearly thirty years.
Early last year, detectives received a tip that led them to reopen the investigation. DNA retrieved from underneath Porter's fingernails was retested and matched to 66-year-old Gregory Fleetwood.
“Forensic experts were able to match the DNA from the defendant with the victim who was strangled and killed in her home with her 5-year-old son present," Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said. "Investigators never gave up on getting justice for her, and her alleged killer is now being held accountable.”
In 1987, Fleetwood was arrested for strangling another woman and served seven years for a manslaughter charge. He was released from prison in 1994, just two years before he allegedly murdered Porter.
Porter’s five-year-old son was in the apartment at the time of her murder and was left alone with her body for days after.
“He locked himself in the apartment with her, tried to clean her nose, wipe the blood off her nose,” Dereke Porter, Jasmine Porter’s brother, told the Daily News of his nephew.
Fleetwood does not have any relation to Porter. At the time of his arrest, he lived just a few miles away from where Porter was murdered.
He was charged with second-degree murder and is due back in court on Sept. 16.
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