NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Wednesday in connection to the death of his teenage stepson found with a neck injury inside a Bronx apartment in January, authorities said.
Tyresse Minter was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, according to officials. Police initially detained him for questioning, but was later released.
At approximately 4:20 p.m. on Monday, January 23, officers responded to a 911 call of an unconscious male inside of an apartment at 1447 Doris St. in Westchester Heights.
Prior to police arrival, EMS responded to the location and transported an unconscious and unresponsive 15-year-old Corde Scott to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was pronounced dead.
Further investigation revealed that Scott had sustained trauma to the neck area.
Sources told 1010 WINS there was some sort of dispute between the teen and his stepfather, and that the the stepfather sought to restrain the teen, who was asthmatic.
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