The son of the 61-year-old woman found stabbed to death inside her Queens home has been arrested for her murder following five years of heated family quarrels that the police responded to, officials said Wednesday.
Armel Crawford, 26, was charged Tuesday night with murder and weapons possession, police said.
Hours earlier, at about 10:40 a.m., his mother, Joanne Crawford, was found dead, stabbed numerous times in the body, inside the family’s Far Rockaway home on Nameoke Ave. near Pinson St., police said.
The murder weapon, a knife, was recovered at the scene, police said.
Armel has no prior arrests, but the NYPD says cops had been called to his home at least four times in the last five years to stop heated arguments between him and his mother.
In June, police filed a domestic incident report in which Armel was accused of harassing his mother, cops said. Then in April, the cops returned to the home again after the two argued over an aunt staying with them.
Police responded to other arguments in November 2022 and in August 2021 when the son was seen throwing hot water in the hallway, cops said.
Armel’s arraignment was pending in Queens Criminal Court Wednesday.