Danueal Drayton was arraigned in Queens Supreme Courtroom on an 18-count indictment Friday.
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A person accused of murdering a Queens nurse after their Tinder date allegedly had intercourse along with her lifeless physique — after which used her bank card to purchase a airplane ticket to flee to California, prosecutors mentioned.
Danueal Drayton, 31, is charged with beating and strangling 29-year-old Samantha Stewart at her Springfield Gardens residence after their date in July 2018.
He was arraigned in Queens Supreme Courtroom on an 18-count indictment Friday after being extradited from Los Angeles to face a slew of expenses, together with homicide, sexual misconduct and grand larceny.
“This was a brutal crime that makes each individual utilizing a courting app fearful,” Queens District Legal professional Melinda Katz mentioned following his arraignment.
“The sufferer was duped into going out on a date with the defendant, who performed a charmer on-line, however was in actual fact an alleged sexual predator.”
Drayton, who lived in New Haven, Connecticut, murdered Stewart after they went again to her residence on July 16 after assembly on the courting app, prosecutors allege.
After the brutal slaying, Drayton allegedly had intercourse with the nurse’s lifeless physique, dumped her in a blanket within the bed room and took off along with her bank cards, in line with the indictment.
He's accused of fleeing her residence in a white van that was discovered deserted at JFK Airport a day later. Prosecutors mentioned he flew to Los Angeles with a ticket he’d purchased with one of many sufferer’s bank cards.
Drayton was taken into custody every week later in a North Hollywood lodge room the place he was allegedly holding a girl in opposition to her will.
Stewart’s physique was solely found by her distraught brothers after Drayton had already fled the Empire State.
Her kin instructed The Put up on the time that Stewart’s tooth had been knocked out and her tongue was hanging from her mouth.
On the time of her dying, Stewart was working at North Shore College Hospital in Manhasset.
“This household deserves justice,” Katz mentioned. “Now again in our custody, this defendant can be held to account for his alleged actions.”
Drayton, who's scheduled to subsequent seem within the Queens courtroom on Might 25, faces as much as 25 years to life in jail if he’s convicted.
He's charged with homicide within the second diploma, grand larceny within the fourth diploma, petit larceny, sexual misconduct, id theft within the second and third diploma, illegal possession of non-public identification data within the third diploma and legal possession of stolen property within the fourth diploma.
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