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14 hours ago
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Brooklyn accused killer confesses to slitting girlfriend's throat with 2 knives: DA
A Brooklyn man who walked into an upstate police stationhouse to confess he'd killed his girlfriend told cops he used two knives to slit her throat, prosecutors revealed. John Roseau, 32, stepped into a Buffalo police precinct stationhouse Thursday and told cops that 26-year-old Dahana Jean was dead in her home on New York Ave. near E. 33rd St. in Midwood, according to law enforcement sources Police officers went to check on her about 8 p.m. Thursday and found her dead in the basement. Her cause of death was an 'incised wound' to her neck, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint alleges Roseau admitted to slitting her throat with two knives. Roseau, of Flatbush, was charged with murder and weapon possession Friday at Brooklyn's 63rd Precinct stationhouse. He was arraigned Saturday in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. His lawyer did not return messages seeking comment Sunday. Jean's body was found in a single-room apartment in the basement of the two-family home, a tenant told the Daily News. Her father used to rent the room but had recently died, with Jean sometimes staying in his room since his death. 'She stays here sometimes but this was temporary,' said the neighbor, Patrick Joseph. Jean also stayed at Roseau's home in Flatbush, Joseph said.
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a day ago
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Man arrested in murder of woman found with neck injury in Brooklyn basement
A 32-year old man has been arrested for murder after telling cops in Buffalo, NY, that his girlfriend was dead at a house in Brooklyn where NYPD cops later found her body, which showed signs of a neck injury, police said Saturday. John Roseau, 32, was arrested one day after he walked into a Buffalo police station and told police there that his girlfriend was dead, giving them the address of a house on New York Ave. near E. 33rd St. in Midwood, a police source said. NYPD officers performing a wellness check found 26-year-old Dahana Jean there in a room in the basement lying on her back unconscious and unresponsive with a neck injury, cops said. EMS pronounced Jean dead at the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide, but is still investigating how she died. 'It's terrible. It's disgusting,' said Patrick Joseph, 62, who rents a room in the basement next to the one where Jean's body was found. 'She was only a 26-year-old girl.' The basement of the two-family home where Jean's body was discovered had been subdivided into single rooms separately rented out by individual tenants. Joseph told a Daily News reporter on Friday night that Jean's father used to rent the room next to his, in which the victim's body was found, but that the father had recently died. Jean occasionally stayed in the room following her dad's death, but typically resided somewhere else, according to Joseph. 'She stays here sometimes, but this was temporary,' he said. 'Her father dropped her off here when he was living here.' When asked where Jean lived, Joseph gave an address that police later identified as Roseau's, an apparent building on Snyder Ave. in Flatbush. Roseau is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
