Brownsville Woman Charged With Murdering Her Elderly Neighbor

BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — Brownsville woman Tamisha Harper, 43, is under arrest for the strangulation death of an elderly woman in Flatbush last week, who was found dead near a broken hammer.

Police charged Harper with the murder of 78-year-old Edna Pierre-Jacques. Harper and Pierre-Jacques were neighbors, according to the NYPD.

Pierre-Jacques was found dead last Monday morning in her East Flatbush home, near the intersection of Troy Avenue and Avenue D, police said.

The medical examiner's office ruled her death a strangulation.

Harper confessed to an investigator to strangling Pierre-Jacques, according to the criminal complaint from the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

Pierre-Jacques' husband was at the home when police arrived, and authorities were questioning him and her other relatives for clues in the case, a police source said.

Police also found gaming machines in the home's basement, and while the investigation is primarily focused on Pierre-Jacques' death, authorities were looking into "who might have been visiting, coming and going, to use these gaming machines," the police source said.

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