{"id":19043,"date":"2025-10-27T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:45:22","slug":"judge-calls-queens-man-who-killed-mother-brother-demon-seed-during-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19043\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge calls Queens man who killed mother, brother \u2018demon seed\u2019 during sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens man convicted of brutally murdering his mother and brother<\/a> in the Queens home they all shared was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Monday by an outraged judge who called him a \u201cdemon seed.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being castigated in court by his own grandmother, uncle and sister, Roscoe Danielson, 42, learned the price he will pay for the Fourth of July 2023 bloodbath in their East Elmhurst home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is only the second time that this court has had within the walls of this courtroom a person who I can only describe as what I call the demon seed,\u201d said Judge Kenneth Holder.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, it describes a person who would take the very life of the person who gave them life. It\u2019s a characterization of a person that is so rare that if a mother \u2014 if your mother \u2014 knew with certainty what terror the future held with your birthright, your birth, frankly, might have been halted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danielson knifed his 31-year-old brother Kyle Danielson 50 times and shot him in the torso before dragging his corpse to the sidewalk in a trash bag.<\/p>\n

He stabbed his 59-year-old mother Cheryl Myrick 38 times and left her to decompose in the family\u2019s home on 104th St.<\/p>\n

\"Surveillance<\/p>\n

Obtained by Daily News<\/p>\n

Surveillance video shows Roscoe Danielson dragging a trash bag containing his brother’s body to the curb in Queens in July 2023. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

The judge\u2019s tongue lashing was just as brutal as the ones given by Danielson\u2019s own relatives, including his maternal grandmother, who took public solace in the possibility that he could die in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re no good, Roscoe,\u201d Catherine Myrick said during the Queens Supreme Court hearing. \u201cYou\u2019re going to suffer upstate where you\u2019re going. And you\u2019re going to know what it is night after night after night. You had no business doing what you did to your mother and your brother. They did nothing to you, nothing but give you a place to stay after you come out of the shelter. You need to be ashamed of yourself, young man. You\u2019re gonna die upstate New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danielson, 42, was convicted last month after a two-week trial of two counts of murder, criminal possession of a weapon, tampering with physical evidence, concealment of a human corpse and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that after his brother\u2019s body was discovered on July 5, 2023,<\/a> Danielson was taken into custody with a knife and a loaded .9mm pistol tucked inside a baby carriage holding his 3-year-son, whose soiled diapers were so full they were leaking onto the tot\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n

His mother\u2019s decomposing body was found early the next day. Both victim\u2019s had been killed on July 4, investigators determined.<\/p>\n

Roscoe Danielson<\/p>\n

\"Roscoe<\/p>\n

Luiz C. Ribeiro\/for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Roscoe Danielson at his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on Aug. 2, 2023. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cRoscoe Danielson murdered his mother and brother in one of the grisliest crime scenes we have ever encountered,\u201d Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Monday. \u201cWe hope today\u2019s sentence brings the family of Cheryl Myrick and Kyle Danielson a measure of solace as they continue to mourn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyle Danielson and Cheryl Myrick<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/p>\n

Obtained by Daily News<\/p>\n

Kyle Danielson and Cheryl Myrick. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

Family members said they are still hurting.<\/p>\n

They described Danielson as a jealous freeloading son and brother who refused to carry his share of the load and rebelled when he was asked to pitch in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say this to you, Roscoe: You are a horrible guy,\u201d said the murdered mom\u2019s brother, Andre Myrick, \u201cMan, you killed my sister. You just couldn\u2019t go get you a job. You couldn\u2019t help nobody.\u00a0 My sister did nothing to you. Look at you, son. Your life is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

ny<\/p>\n

\"Candles<\/p>\n

Rebecca White\/for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Candles are pictured on July 7, 2023, at the site where Roscoe Danielson dragged a body in a garbage bag on 104th St. in East Elmhurst, Queens. (Rebecca White for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Andre Myrick said the accused killer moved back into the family home after he was booted from a shelter about two years ago when authorities caught him with a gun. He previously received a dishonorable discharge after joining the Army.<\/p>\n

Danielson\u2019s sister, Danielle Danielson, said the Fourth of July was one of her mother\u2019s favorite holidays.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not just a loss. It was a horrible manner that has shattered our lives in ways that can never be repaired,\u201d she said in court. \u201cMy mother was a kind, gentle and selfless woman. She never hit us, never drank, never partied. She worked hard and raised us with love and patience. She taught us everything she knew and gave us everything she could, even when she had very little for herself. She did not deserve to die this way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens man convicted of brutally murdering his mother and brother in the Queens home they all shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-19043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043","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=19043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}