NEW YORK CITY, NY – A 27-year old man along with his 54-year-old mother are facing several charges in the alleged torture and murder of a 21-year-old woman who was apparently the girlfriend of the male suspect.
On July 22nd, NYPD officers responded to an apartment building located along the 2200 block of Grand Concourse following a 911 call about an assault in progress taking place in the apartment of a man later identified as Robert Strother.
According to officials, responding officers discovered the body of Princesa Encarnacion-Soto lying on a staircase inside of the apartment building, harboring a host of lacerations to her body that had been cleaned up before her body was discarded outside of Strother’s apartment.
In a press briefing delivered on July 25th, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny announced Strother as their prime suspect in the grisly murder investigation, who was on the lam at the time of the press briefing.
Chief Kenny detailed the unsettling nature of the crime, telling members of the press that Encarnacion-Soto was clearly tortured - likely for days - before she was killed.
“The wounds themselves were inflicted for pain, not to kill,” Chief Kenny stated, adding, “There are slice marks on her thighs, slice marks on her upper arms and shoulders. The ones on her legs were fresh. The ones on her upper torso seemed like they were in the process of healing.”
Strother’s mother, Nadia Jorge, was found at the scene of the incident and was taken into custody immediately, whereas her son had apparently fled before officers arrived at the apartment. Jorge was later arraigned on several charges including murder and tampering with physical evidence on July 25th, as police say she was complicit in the killing of Encarnacion-Soto as well as the cleaning up of the scene where the woman was allegedly tortured and killed.
Police later apprehended Strother on August 3rd and he is facing synonymous charges alongside his mother, which are murder, manslaughter, hindering prosecution, concealment of a human corpse, and tampering with physical evidence.
While a specific motive in the case hasn’t been shared by authorities, officials did note that the victim had moved into the apartment with Strother a mere eleven days before her body was discovered by police and that Strother had in excess of 20 prior arrests for domestic violence, but none of the prior arrests involved the deceased.
On July 22nd, NYPD officers responded to an apartment building located along the 2200 block of Grand Concourse following a 911 call about an assault in progress taking place in the apartment of a man later identified as Robert Strother.
According to officials, responding officers discovered the body of Princesa Encarnacion-Soto lying on a staircase inside of the apartment building, harboring a host of lacerations to her body that had been cleaned up before her body was discarded outside of Strother’s apartment.
In a press briefing delivered on July 25th, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny announced Strother as their prime suspect in the grisly murder investigation, who was on the lam at the time of the press briefing.
Chief Kenny detailed the unsettling nature of the crime, telling members of the press that Encarnacion-Soto was clearly tortured - likely for days - before she was killed.
“The wounds themselves were inflicted for pain, not to kill,” Chief Kenny stated, adding, “There are slice marks on her thighs, slice marks on her upper arms and shoulders. The ones on her legs were fresh. The ones on her upper torso seemed like they were in the process of healing.”
Strother’s mother, Nadia Jorge, was found at the scene of the incident and was taken into custody immediately, whereas her son had apparently fled before officers arrived at the apartment. Jorge was later arraigned on several charges including murder and tampering with physical evidence on July 25th, as police say she was complicit in the killing of Encarnacion-Soto as well as the cleaning up of the scene where the woman was allegedly tortured and killed.
Police later apprehended Strother on August 3rd and he is facing synonymous charges alongside his mother, which are murder, manslaughter, hindering prosecution, concealment of a human corpse, and tampering with physical evidence.
While a specific motive in the case hasn’t been shared by authorities, officials did note that the victim had moved into the apartment with Strother a mere eleven days before her body was discovered by police and that Strother had in excess of 20 prior arrests for domestic violence, but none of the prior arrests involved the deceased.
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