{"id":297316,"date":"2026-07-16T03:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297316\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:24:49","slug":"maniac-guns-down-his-niece-getting-into-her-car-on-nyc-street-over-home-ownership-spat-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297316\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac\u00a0guns down his niece getting into her car on NYC street over home ownership spat: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Mount Vernon gunman was arrested Wednesday night for killing his niece <\/a>on a Bronx street in a dispute over an inherited home, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster, 58, allegedly shot Julia Anderson, 39, multiple times in the stomach as she was about to step into her black Jeep in the Wakefield section Monday night, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster, 58, was arrested for gunning down his niece, Julia Anderson, as she got into her car on a Bronx street on Monday night. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

Anderson, who also lived in nearby Mount Vernon, was found sprawled on the ground outside her ride on Murdock Avenue when police responded to a 911 call about the shooting, the sources said.<\/p>\n

She was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died, cops said.<\/p>\n

A dispute over an inherited home appears to have sparked the uncle\u2019s rampage, sources said. The pair lived in the same residence in Mount Vernon. <\/p>\n

Anderson was shot multiple times in her stomach as she tried to enter her black Jeep in Wakefield. Facebook\/Julia Anderson<\/p>\n

Members of the NYPD\u2019s Crime Scene Unit were seen raiding a Bell Avenue home in the Westchester County suburb associated with the pair late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cops carried out brown paper bags of evidence, taking photos and examining a gun box by the leafy home.<\/p>\n

Foster was slapped with charges for murder, manslaughter and 10 counts of criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.<\/p>\n

The alleged killer wore bright yellow shorts, socks and sandals, and kept his head down as cops walked him from the Bronx\u2019s 47th Precinct to a police car Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Members of the NYPD\u2019s Crime Scene Unit were seen raiding a property on Bell Avenue in Mount Vernon. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Foster was awaiting his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Anderson\u2019s mother, Beverley Patterson, told Fox5<\/a> that her daughter worked as a disability aide and was just a month away from her 40th birthday. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very good, she kind of looks similar like me, although she\u2019s tall, like 6 foot, I think,\u201d Patterson told the outlet. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, she went to work and that was it, never heard anything from her again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mount Vernon gunman was arrested Wednesday night for killing his niece on a Bronx street in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,1015,3290,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-297316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-deaths","tag-domestic-violence","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297316","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=297316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}