{"id":298176,"date":"2026-07-16T22:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:32:46","slug":"maniac-charged-with-gunning-down-niece-on-nyc-street-did-prison-time-for-killing-nfl-stars-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298176\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac charged with gunning down niece on NYC street did prison time for killing NFL star’s dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mount Vernon man charged with gunning down his niece over a property dispute<\/a> once did prison time for the drive-by murder of former NFL star Ray Rice\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster, 58, allegedly shot and killed his niece, 39-year-old Julia Anderson<\/a>, outside her Bronx job on Monday over a bitter squabble over a family home in Westchester County, law enforcement sources have said.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster at his arraignment at the Bronx Criminal Court Thursday. Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post\/Pool<\/p>\n

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

It wasn\u2019t Foster\u2019s first brush with the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s of note, your honor, is that the defendant has previously been convicted of manslaughter where he\u2019s served a significant amount of time,\u201d Bronx Assistant District Attorney Burim Namani said in court Thursday as Foster was arraigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the second person he\u2019s killed, your honor,\u201d Namani said.<\/p>\n

State corrections records show that he was one of four people charged in the 1988 drive-by shooting death of Calvin Reed, the father of the former Baltimore Ravens running back.<\/p>\n

Rice, 39, a native of New Rochelle, played for the 2013 Super Bowl champion Ravens, but is best remembered for the caught-on-video slugging his then-girlfriend in an Atlantic City casino elevator the following year \u2013 derailing his football career. He later married the woman, Janay Palmer, but the shocking footage never faded.<\/p>\n

Foster was also one of four people charged in the 1988 drive-by shooting death of Calvin Reed (pictured), the father of the former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. Paul J. Bereswill<\/p>\n

Ray Rice was only a year old when his father was murdered. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

Rice was still in diapers when Reed was killed \u2014 with Foster later hit with a sentence of 4 to 20 years in state prison on a first-degree manslaughter conviction.<\/p>\n

Foster was denied parole three times before he was released in 1999, state records show.<\/p>\n

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He and his niece were embroiled into a legal dispute over a home at 18 Bell Avenue in Mount Vernon \u2013when he allegedly shot her several times in the stomach as she was about to step into her Jeep in Wakefield.<\/p>\n

Records show that Foster and Anderson shared ownership of the home, but in recent years got into a bitter fight over who was the rightful owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster being transported from the NYPD\u2019s 47th Precinct in The Bronx on July 15, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

The house at 18 Bell Avenue in Mount Vernon that was the source of the dispute between Foster and his niece. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

An upset family member of Foster and Anderson outside of the Mount Vernon house on July 16, 2026. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

In October, Anderson even filed a $27 million federal lawsuit against Westchester County prosecutors over her April 2025 arrest on accusations of \u201ctheft involving family property documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court document suggests she blamed her uncle for the arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat began as a civil family dispute was transformed\u2014without investigation or legal basis \u2014 into a months-long criminal ordeal that left deep and lasting scars,\u201d the federal filing said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire process was initiated not through evidence or probable cause, but through the unvetted statements of a known felon with a violent criminal history and a personal vendetta,\u201d it said, in an apparent reference to Foster.<\/p>\n

He was ordered held without bail on murder, manslaughter and weapons charges for his niece\u2019s fatal shooting.<\/p>\n

Outside the home, a relative told The Post on Thursday that she was \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the senseless slaying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m falling apart,\u201d said the 74-year-old woman, who declined to give her name. She said Anderson was married, but had no children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI came home from work, I saw a lot of police cars,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI couldn\u2019t open my door. I didn\u2019t know what was going on. I heard people talking.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018What happened?’\u201d she said she finally asked. \u201cIt\u2019s Julie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional reporting by Peter Senzamici and Georgett Roberts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mount Vernon man charged with gunning down his niece over a property dispute once did prison time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,303,1015,57,6336,238,9,24,63,97158,3980,129,131,130,58,1628],"class_list":["post-298176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-mount-vernon","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ray-rice","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298176","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=298176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}