A disgruntled son was arrested for stabbing his retired corrections officer mother to death inside their Queens home in an act of domestic violence, according to authorities and family members.<\/p>\n
Armel Crawford, 26, was arrested for fatally stabbing Joanne Crawford, 61, inside their home on Nameoke Avenue in Far Rockaway on Tuesday, the NYPD announced.<\/p>\n
Joanne, a retired corrections officer, was discovered with multiple stab wounds in the residence around 10:40 a.m. She was pronounced dead on the scene, cops said. <\/p>\n
Armel Crawford, 26, was arrested for fatally stabbing his mother, Joanne Crawford, 61, inside their home on Nameoke Avenue in Far Rockaway on Tuesday. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Joanne Crawford was remembered by family as a giving fixture of the community who was always there for her loved ones. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Armel was cuffed and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon hours later on Tuesday night, police said.<\/p>\n
Joanne\u2019s first cousin, Barry Crawford, told reporters at the scene that Armel had a tense relationship with his mother over her job as a corrections officer, which she later retired from.<\/p>\n
The gig kept her out of the house and allegedly led Armel to feel he didn\u2019t have the \u201cquality time\u201d with his mother that he wanted while growing up, the cousin explained.<\/p>\n
Barry believed a disagreement had sparked between the mother and her only son some time before the stabbing for not allowing him \u201cto take care of his grandmother anymore\u201d because he \u201cdidn\u2019t respect her.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHe never was a troubled kid outside; he just had problems with her. I think his biggest problem with her is that she worked for corrections, she was a retired corrections officer, so she was never home \u2026 he felt that she never gave him the quality time that he desired,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n
Armel was cuffed and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon hours later on Tuesday night. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Police would not confirm Armel and Joanne\u2019s relationship to each other on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Barry said he started \u201cpouring tears\u201d after learning about Joanne\u2019s death and remembered her as a giving fixture of the community who was always there for her loved ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer father and my mother are brothers and sisters. We\u2019ve been close since we were little kids. I\u2019ll love her and miss her forever. I\u2019ll never understand this tragedy or what has happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tragedy will never be understood by this family because of who she is. She did everything for everyone who came in contact with her. Anyone who knew Joanne Crawford knew she was a loving person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disgruntled son was arrested for stabbing his retired corrections officer mother to death inside their Queens home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3290,3109,1027,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,2442,58],"class_list":["post-290031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-domestic-violence","tag-far-rockaway","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-stabbings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290031","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=290031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}