The cousin of a single mom discovered unresponsive within a storage container within the Bronx, New York, has been charged together with her horrific homicide.
The physique of 35-year-old Nisaa Walcott was discovered Friday throughout from a self-storage facility the place persons are identified to dump “undesirable gadgets,” CBS2 reported.
On Saturday, 21-year-old Khalid Barrow, and Walcott’s cousin, was arrested and charged with homicide and concealment of a human corpse. Upon finding Barrow, police discovered “monetary paperwork” that belonged to Walcott. Her brother, Eugene Butler, had filed a lacking individual’s report.
Authorities are investigating if Walcott, a beautician, was murdered on February 16, the final day she was seen.
”We’re letting the police do their work. We’re nonetheless unsure what occurred,” Walcott’s sister-in-law Anginette Johnson mentioned. ”We’re simply in shock proper now.”
Johnson says her husband, Eugene, “realized Wednesday night time…one thing was unsuitable. She wasn’t answering her telephone in any respect,” she recalled.
Eugene mentioned he final spoke to his sister on Valentine’s Day, ABC 7 NY reported. However after they spoke, he began to obtain unusual textual content messages from her quantity. He knew it wasn’t his sister as a result of she all the time picked up the telephone.
The subsequent day Eugene filed a lacking individual’s report. That very same day that Walcott’s son obtained a textual content message saying his mom was going out of city for enterprise and that she was leaving Khalid Barrow in cost.
However Johnson mentioned Walcott would have by no means left her son. When the teenager arrived dwelling, he noticed Barrow cleansing their dwelling and the condo smelled like bleach.
A video from February 18 allegedly reveals Barrow dragging a plastic bin to the roof of the constructing. Seven days later, he returned with one other man who helped him carry the container out of the constructing. Surveillance footage reveals a person dumping the bin within the Bronx the place Walcott’s physique was discovered.
Whereas the household is aware of that Walcott is a murder sufferer, they nonetheless haven’t been instructed the reason for her loss of life.
”The individuals who killed her are simply merciless to place her in a container like that,” Anginette johnson instructed “the New yOrk Every day Information.”
