College Grad Stabbed to Death in Projects Over $20 Sources Say

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A 22-year-old John Jay College grad was stabbed to death in a Brooklyn housing project Monday night, apparently during an argument over $20 she lent her boyfriend's sister to buy Pampers, relatives and police sources said.

Kamisha Richards was knifed once in the chest in the Cypress Hills Houses on Sutter Ave. in East New York about 10:35 p.m, officials said.

A relative of the boyfriend's said she returned home from work and found Richards "going down slowly."

"She wasn't panicking," the relative said. "She was calm. I called the ambulance and put pressure on (the wound).

"I did everything I could to try to save the girl."

Richards was pronounced dead on arrival at Brookldale University Hospital.


"My daughter's dead!" the victim's father screamed out at the crime scene, where about 25 stunned relatives and friends gathered. "My daughter's dead!"

Family members described Richards as a John Jay grad and said she worked for JPMorgan Chase.

The relatives said she stayed on-and-off in the Cypress Hills complex, where her boyfriend of seven years, Ramel Henriques, lived.

No one was immediately arrested, but detectives were questioning several people, including an 18-year-old woman identified by sources as the boyfriend's sister.

She was picked up by police in a neighboring building.

Richards' friends and relatives said the victim had recently lent the sister $20 to buy disposable diapers and milk for the sister's baby, then got angry when she found out the woman spent the money on other things.

"My daughter takes care of the whole family there," Richards' father said. "(The sister) had a baby recently. My daughter gave her $20 to go buy some milk and Pampers. She went and spent the money on something else. They argued about it. ... She waited for her to come home from work, and did her."

Source: NYDailyNews


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