Detectives are questioning a male relative of an 85-year-old woman who was found stabbed to death inside her Bed-Stuy home late Tuesday night.
According to police sources, officers from the 79th Precinct were called to 638 Throop Ave. minutes before 10 p.m. on Jan. 13.
Cops say the victim’s daughter made the grim discovery, finding her mother — 85-year-old Julia Boomer — with multiple stab wounds throughout her body.
Boomer was rushed to Kings Country Hospital in critical condition; she ultimately died there a short time later.
While the exact motive for the brutal slaying is not yet clear, police say they believe the killing to be a domestic dispute.
The male family member, who has yet to be identified, has been taken into custody for questioning. Charges are pending the results of the ongoing investigation.
A large police presence remained on the scene on Wednesday morning as investigators continued to probe the incident.
It was the first reported homicide in the 79th Precinct this year; the command had eight murders in 2025, according to the NYPD. Domestic violence and homicide has been a persistent issue across New York City. From 2010 to 2022, there were 793 domestic violence homicides in the city, accounting for 16.7% of all homicides, according to a 2023 report, those numbers include both intimate partner violence and violence between family members.
Last year, cops shot and killed a man who was allegedly involved in a domestic violence incident in Canarsie. Just a few months earlier, a different Canarsie man was indicted after he allegedly stabbed and killed his wife in what prosecutors described as a “jealous rage.”
This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork.
