A 68-year-old man fatally choked his younger sister in their Brooklyn apartment, cops and law-enforcement sources said Monday.
Mary Fagan, 64, was found unresponsive in the living room of the home she shared with her brother, Thomas Fagan, on St. Johns Place near Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights around 6 p.m. July 26, police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by responding EMS workers.
Initially, the woman’s death did not appear suspicious, but a later examination revealed she suffered bruising to her neck, indicating possible strangulation, the sources said.
The city Medical Examiner’s Office then determined that Mary’s death was a homicide caused by “compression of the neck,” a spokeswoman said.
As detectives interviewed her brother – who has no prior arrests – he admitted to the crime, sources said. Cops did not provide a motive for the killing.
Thomas was arrested Saturday evening and charged with murder, police said.
He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail during his Sunday arraignment, online court records show.
The NYPD was never previously alerted to any domestic-violence incidents involving the brother and sister, cops said.
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