{"id":103596,"date":"2026-01-17T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:41:07","slug":"nyc-man-allegedly-told-his-mom-i-killed-grandma-after-85-year-old-woman-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103596\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man allegedly told his mom, &#8216;I killed grandma&#8217; after 85-year-old woman found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn man allegedly confessed to stabbing his grandmother, admitting the crime to his own mom shortly after the victim was found, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI killed grandma,\u201d Jackson King allegedly said after 85-year-old Julia Boomer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/14\/us-news\/85-year-old-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-nyc-home-grandson-in-custody-sources\/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;utm_source=Slack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was found battered and with multiple stab wounds,<\/a> according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>An unkempt-looking King, 22, appeared in court Saturday to face a murder charge in Boomer\u2019s Jan. 13 death. <\/p>\n<p>Jackson King, 22, was arraigned on murder and weapons charges in his grandmother\u2019s killing. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Julia Boomer, 85, was found by her daughter with stab wounds throughout her body, officials said. Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>King, cuffed behind his back and with his hair uncombed, was wearing black sweatpants, white socks and black slip-on shoes for the appearance before Judge Elizabeth Warin, during which he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect spoke to his lawyer but otherwise said nothing as he was arraigned in front of Judge Elizabeth Warin on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Julia Boomer.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Defense Services Lawyer Matt Coretto asked for medical and psychiatric attention for his client, who has been hospitalized since the heinous crime. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Taylor Lupi asked Jackson be sent to jail and the judge agreed, sending King to Rikers Island without bail.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s grandson told his mom he killed his grandmother, according to a court document released Saturday. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Jackson King, 22, lived with Boomer in a Throop Avnue building in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Boomer was stabbed multiple times just before 10 p.m. on Jan. 13 in the home she shared with Jackson on Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s daughter made the grim discovery, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Boomer was rushed to Kings County Hospital in critical condition but couldn\u2019t be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the killing, which cops called a domestic dispute,\u00a0wasn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n<p>King has three prior arrests on his record for grand larceny and criminal contempt, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The murder was the first in the NYPD\u2019s 79 Precinct so far this year, police data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man allegedly confessed to stabbing his grandmother, admitting the crime to his own mom shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,103,2442,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-103596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-stabbings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}