{"id":119585,"date":"2025-08-05T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:11:11","slug":"man-68-fatally-chokes-younger-sister-in-nyc-apartment-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119585\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 68, fatally chokes younger sister in NYC apartment: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old man fatally choked his younger sister in their Brooklyn apartment, cops and law-enforcement sources said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead at the scene by responding EMS workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.96168582;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36737968\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/715-st-johns-place-brooklyn-109215360.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Fagan, 68, was charged with murder in the July 26 choking death of his sister, Mary Fagan, 64, police said. \" class=\"wp-image-36737968\"  \/>A 68-year-old man is accused of killing his younger sister in their Brooklyn home last month. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the woman\u2019s death did not appear suspicious, but a later examination revealed she suffered bruising to her neck, indicating possible strangulation, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city Medical Examiner\u2019s Office then determined that Mary\u2019s death was a homicide caused by \u201ccompression of the neck,\u201d a spokeswoman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As detectives interviewed her brother \u2013 who has no prior arrests \u2013 he admitted to the crime, sources said.\u00a0Cops did not provide a motive for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was arrested Saturday evening and charged with murder, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail during his Sunday arraignment, online court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD was never previously alerted to any domestic-violence incidents involving the brother and sister, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old man fatally choked his younger sister in their Brooklyn apartment, cops and law-enforcement sources said Monday.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,4219,38535,32551,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-119585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-crown-heights","12":"tag-domestic-violence","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-murders","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114973500016119292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}