A Manhattan avenue erupted in anger on Monday when a person in a wheelchair was taken into custody within the killing of a younger lady, whose physique had been discovered wrapped in a blue sleeping bag days earlier than.
No less than 50 neighbors and members of the family of the girl, Yazmeen Williams, 31, swarmed the law enforcement officials who positioned the person on a stretcher and whisked him out of an condominium constructing within the Straus Homes, a public housing improvement on East twenty eighth Avenue close to Second Avenue. Some obtained shut sufficient to punch him within the face, seize his denims and rip the again of his blue-and-yellow striped shirt. Officers and emergency service staff held out their arms to maintain the group at bay.
A few of the loudest screams had been from Ms. Williams’s mom, Nicole Williams.
“You killed my daughter! Please kill him!” she cried out.
“She didn’t deserve that,” her mom mentioned. “She was daughter. She was my finest good friend.”
The person, who has not but been named by the police, was thought-about an individual of curiosity within the lady’s dying on Monday however has not been charged. Neighbors mentioned he and Yazmeen Williams had been a pair, however the household mentioned they weren’t acquainted with him.
On Friday, simply earlier than 5 p.m., officers responded to a report of a suspicious package deal exterior an condominium constructing on East twenty seventh Avenue within the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan. When the police arrived, they found Ms. Williams’s physique wrapped in a sleeping bag subsequent to a pile of trash.
The town’s health worker discovered that Ms. Williams had been shot within the head, and her dying was dominated a murder, the police mentioned.
On Monday afternoon, earlier than the police took the person into custody, roughly 10 members of the family gathered on the condominium Ms. Williams grew up in on Second Avenue, about two blocks from the place her physique was discovered.
Her aunt, Nisha Ramirez, mentioned that Ms. Williams had graduated from Buffalo State College with a level in legal justice and had simply began a job with the New York Metropolis Housing Authority.
Ms. Ramirez stood within the hallway of the Tenth-floor condominium. She paused as Nicole Williams, who was inside the house, yelled and sobbed.
“This isn’t simply anyone that was thrown within the trash. She was an individual. She was college-educated. She had a household,” Ms. Ramirez mentioned. “Whoever killed her may assume she was somebody who didn’t have a household, that nobody’s going to look out for her. That is the place she grew up. All people is aware of her.”
When Ms. Ramirez and Nicole Williams obtained a name {that a} man linked to Ms. Williams’s killing was being taken into custody across the nook, they ran out the door and down the block to the constructing on East twenty eighth Avenue. They joined the neighbors who had been already exterior, ready for the police to deliver out the person.
Then, by the first-floor home windows, they noticed him being taken out on a stretcher. They pounded the glass.
After the ambulance took the person away, Nicole Williams spoke about her daughter as soon as extra.
“She was an angel. She was a lightweight,” the mom mentioned. “She’s going to stay with me endlessly.”
