Mystifying Deaths of NYC Girl, Her Mom Ruled Double Homicide
The case of a 10-year-old girl and her mother who were found dead in their Bronx home over the weekend has been ruled a homicide, police said Tuesday, though it's still not clear how the pair was killed.
A man, just identified as 32-year-old Ezort Stevens, whose home address in Belmont is the same one listed for the victims, had been found critically injured with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head nearby, though investigators had said the 10-year-old, Heaven Ross, and her mom, Linda Manigualt, had not been shot.
The NYPD also said there were no signs of outward trauma to their bodies. The medical examiner's investigation into a cause of death is ongoing.
Stevens was charged this week with two counts of criminal possession of a firearm. There was no immediate update on his condition Tuesday, nor was it clear if prosecutors would seek to upgrade charges against him at some point. Information on an attorney for him was unclear, as was his relationship to the two victims.
The victims were discovered shortly after 1:30 p.m. Saturday when three other children who were at the home at the time called a relative, who alerted authorities. Those children were not said to be harmed.
Neighbors said they lived on the top floor of a three-story home and they were new to the neighborhood.
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