Kareem Flake was arrested in Florida for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Destini Smothers in November 2020.
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The person who allegedly killed his upstate, New York girlfriend and left her physique stuffed within the trunk of a automobile parked in Queens has been arrested in Florida, a supply mentioned on Sunday.
Kareem Flake was busted within the Sunshine State and a police supply mentioned he was being held at a correctional facility in Osceola since Friday. The NYPD has been seeking to arrest Flake for the 2020 homicide of Destini Smothers.
Smothers, from Troy, New York, was 26-years-old had two younger kids with Flake. She went lacking in November 2020.
The mother’s physique was found in March 2021 when Division of Sanitation staff towing a sedan in South Ozone Park popped the trunk and found her decomposing physique inside.
Smothers died of a blunt influence to her head, with a cranium fracture and mind damage, in line with the town medical expert’s workplace.
Flake was arrested in Kissimmee, Florida for home battery towards a unique lady and is being held at Osceola jail, in line with the supply. The NYPD is ready to listen to the outcomes of the Florida fees introduced towards him earlier than an extradition listening to is held.
It's presently unclear how lengthy it can take to switch Flake to New York and prosecute him for allegedly murdering Smothers.
The younger mother was final seen leaving Bowlero bowling alley in November 2020, the place she attended a celebration with Flake, in line with the lacking individual’s report filed on the time.
The couple acquired in a “heated argument” that night time, the report says.
Her case acquired renewed consideration in September 2021 as Gabby Petito’s gained worldwide prominence and a nationwide dialog was sparked about “lacking white lady syndrome” — the concept posits disappearance instances involving individuals of colour rapidly fall off the nationwide radar, whereas these of white ladies obtain the majority of the eye.
On the time, the media frenzy round Petito’s homicide captivated the nation, and it had been virtually a yr since Smothers’ preliminary disappearance and an arrest had but to be made in her homicide.
Smother’s household was unable to be reached on Sunday.
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