Cops Arrest Another Suspect Involved In Grisly Murders At Sheepshead Bay Houses
Police arrested a 28-year-old man Wednesday who allegedly assisted teenager Destiny Garcia in the grisly murder her mother and mother’s boyfriend in the Sheepshead Bay Houses.
Authorities charged Jerry Maisonett, of Sunset Park, with two counts of murder and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according to the NYPD.
Garcia, 15, initially told investigators that another person had been in the hallway when she shot and stabbed her mother, 38-year-old Rosie Sanchez, and her mother’s boyfriend, 40-year-old Anderson Nunez, in the final days of 2015. Cops discovered the rotting corpses in a blood-bathed apartment a week after the killings allegedly took place.
The Daily News reports that Garcia had called Maisonett to her home for protection because she had been abused. Maisonett also provided Garcia with the gun used in the murders and even cocked the weapon for her, according to the Daily News.
Police reportedly found Maisonett’s DNA inside the apartment. He also allegedly plunged a knife into Nunez to “make sure he was dead” when returning to the crime scene to search for the murder weapons, the Daily News reports.
During her confession to police, Garcia said Maisonett had been cut during the struggle in the apartment and investigators discovered that he had been treated that eveneing at New York Methodist Hospital for a wound to his right hand, according to the Daily News.
Investigators have cast doubt on Garcia’s claims that she was abused. She claimed to have been sexually abused by Nunez and her mother refused to do anything about it. However, she later changed her story and said it was her mother who she was physically assaulted by her mom and that the boyfriend refused to help.
Garcia was also reportedly partying in Times Square on New Year Eve — several days after murders took place.
