Man accused of concealing dead woman in sleeping bag in Kips Bay faces murder charge
A man who was arrested earlier this week for allegedly concealing a dead woman in a sleeping bag on the street in Kips Bay is now formally accused of murdering her, among other charges, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said on Thursday.
The new charges come after police arrested Irish on Monday with the help of surveillance video and community tips andthe body of 31-year-old Manhattan resident Yazmeen Williams, who was found wrapped in a sleeping bag with a gunshot wound to her head last Friday in front of the residential building at 207 East 27th St.about a suspicious package with a foul odor at that location, among trash bags.
Additional surveillance video reviewed by police showed Williams and Irish arguing in a hallway in the building on East 28th Street in late June, when Irish allegedly told her “I’ll shoot you,” per the document. A witness told law enforcement that when they visited the apartment and spoke with Irish on July 1, he discouraged them from entering Williams’ room. The complaint said Irish was later recorded discarding the sleeping bag on East 27th Street.
Redmond Haskins, a spokesperson for the nonprofit Legal Aid Society, which has been assigned to represent Irish, said in a statement on Thursday that Irish “is disabled and entitled to presumption of innocence.”
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