For weeks, investigators have been trying to ID a suspect for the murder of Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar. Thanks to security cameras, someone has been identified:
sourceRasheen Everett, 29, was arrested in Las Vegas Friday and was returned to New York City Wednesday. He was awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court. There was no phone listing at his Manhattan address provided by police and it wasn't clear if he had an attorney.
Investigators believe he met Edelbuerto Gonzalez-Andujar, who went by the name Amanda, in a chat room shortly before the slaying. She was transgender, though police do not believe it was a factor in her death, but rather was a possible dispute over money.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said witnesses heard loud bangs and screams several minutes after he arrived at her apartment at about 8:50 a.m. March 27. He left 17 hours later, prosecutors said, with two stuffed bags that included her cell phone.
Gonzalez-Andujar's body was found three days later, face-down, covered in bleach, in her Queens apartment that had been ransacked. A concerned relative got the building superintendent to open up the apartment, after not hearing from 29-year-old Gonzalez-Andujar for three days.
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