NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A man accused of killing his mother and brother in Queens last month is facing murder charges after the NYPD deemed their deaths a homicide, police said Wednesday.
Roscoe Danielson, 40, was arrested and charged at noon on Tuesday, August 1, authorities said.
Danielson now faces murder charges in addition to charges of criminal possession of a loaded firearm, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence criminal possession of a firearm, act in a manner injurious to a child less than 17, and criminal possession of a weapon.
The victims were found dead in Queens about 12 hours apart.
Kyle Danielson, Roscoe’s 31-year-old brother, was found dead with a puncture wound to his back stuffed in a garbage bag on 104th Street in Corona just before 2 p.m. on July 5, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The two men’s 58-year-old mother was found dead Thursday July 6, with trauma to her torso in the family’s home on 104th Street near Northern Boulevard down the road from where Kyle’s body was discovered.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials later identified her as Cheryl Myrick.
“This defendant is accused of the most gruesome of crimes, taking the life of his own mother and brother and leaving his sibling’s body on the sidewalk. We will hold him fully
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