Travis Blake was arrested on Thursday in connection to the triple murder.
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The estranged boyfriend of a Queens mother who was murdered alongside her son and niece was arrested by officers in Maine Thursday in connection to the triple slaying, police mentioned.
Travis Blake, 29, was picked up by members of the Regional Fugitive Activity Power at some point after he was named a suspect within the grotesque killings of 55-year-old Karlene Barnett, whom he had been courting, her son Dervon Brightly, 36, and Barnett’s 22-year-old niece, Vashawnna Malcolm.
The three family have been discovered lifeless inside Barnett’s South Jamaica house on June 24, police mentioned.
Two days earlier than authorities found the grisly scene, Blake had stopped by Barnett’s home to seize his belongings, sources mentioned.
Malcolm, who had been visiting from the nation of Jamaica, was discovered gagged and certain with a number of stab wounds in a second-floor bed room, based on police sources.
The our bodies of Barnett and Brightly have been discovered within the basement. Every suffered trauma and stab wounds, police mentioned.
The three had reportedly been lifeless for days earlier than their our bodies — already decomposing in the summertime warmth — have been found.
Pals and neighbors have been shocked to be taught of the triple murder.
“All of us are attempting to fathom how this animal took out three individuals,” Danielle Richardson, a pal of Brightly, advised the Submit Sunday.
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