{"id":83838,"date":"2025-12-29T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83838\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:00:09","slug":"2-facing-murder-charges-after-deadly-neighbor-dispute-in-the-bronx-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83838\/","title":{"rendered":"2 facing murder charges after deadly neighbor dispute in the Bronx, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people are now facing murder charges following what police say was a deadly dispute among neighbors<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Police say 24-year-old Beyonce Johnson and 21-year-old Saleh Ceesay are charged with murder and manslaughter in the death of 30-year-old Shashamanie Thompson on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The victim and suspects are neighbors on separate floors of the same Ogden Avenue building and have had numerous disputes in the past, officials say.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the victim went up to the suspect’s floor and a dispute erupted in the sixth-floor hallway.<\/p>\n

As the two were arguing, Ceesay is alleged to have come up from behind and held Thompson against her will. Police say Johnson took out a knife and, as her accomplice held the victim from behind, stabbed her multiple times.<\/p>\n

Officers responding to a 911 call found Thompson unresponsive with knife wounds to her face and abdomen.<\/p>\n

She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Neighbors say they heard an argument before the killing.<\/p>\n

“I heard a lot of yelling, somebody screaming ‘help me,” one neighbor said. “I heard them fighting, I heard her screaming for help, I wasn’t sure what floor it was on. It sounded like it was close but also like downstairs or something.”<\/p>\n

There is no word from police on what the argument was about.<\/p>\n

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