{"id":83891,"date":"2025-12-29T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:44:11","slug":"nyc-woman-stabbed-by-neighbor-enraged-over-dog-as-attackers-boyfriend-held-her-down-in-elevator-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83891\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC woman stabbed by neighbor enraged over dog as attacker&#8217;s boyfriend held her down in elevator: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old Bronx mom was allegedly held down by her thuggish neighbor while his girlfriend viciously <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/28\/us-news\/woman-stabbed-to-death-inside-nyc-apartment-2-people-questioned-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed her to death in an elevator<\/a> \u2013 all in a dispute over a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce Johnson, 24, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Saleh Ceesay, got into a scuffle with mom Shashamanie Thompson inside their Highbridge apartment building Sunday night, with the encounter turning deadly, prosecutors said as Ceesay was arraigned on murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>The accused killer\u2019s lawyer said the ongoing dispute was over Thompson\u2019s dog being left loose in the hallway \u2013 as he blamed the victim for setting off the fatal feud.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38046983\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_30_year_old_woman_identified_a_16214905e.jpg\" alt=\"Bronx stabbing\" class=\"wp-image-38046983\"  \/>The alleged murder occurred Sunday night at the Highbridge apartment building. Kyle Mazza\/UNF News\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a very fast altercation that [Ceesay\u2019s] girlfriend didn\u2019t start,\u201d attorney Edwin Sapone told The Post. \u201cIt appears to have been a situation that was happening over time, where this neighbor had a dog in the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of keeping the dog in her apartment, she would keep the dog in the hallway, and many neighbors were complaining about that,\u201d Sapone said.<\/p>\n<p>But Bronx prosecutors said it was a vicious two-on-one attack, with Johnson, who remains hospitalized after her arrest, screaming, \u201cI will f\u2013king kill you\u201d while repeatedly stabbing Thompson as Ceesay held the helpless woman down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38046982\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767041051_411_DSC04157.jpg\" alt=\"Saleh Ceesay\" class=\"wp-image-38046982\"  \/>Boyfriend Saleh Ceesay (left) was ordered held without bail.  TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n<p>The pair even threw the dying victim out of the elevator \u2013 but she lived long enough to finger her killer, Bronx prosecutors Skylar Seabert said in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival of officers and first responders, the victim stated, in sum and substance, \u2018the girl in 6D did this,\u2019\u201d Seabert told Judge David Goodwin. \u201cDefendant Johnson is believed to reside in apartment 6D. This incident was captured on surveillance footage, both audio and video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sapone told the judge that the evidence against Johnson was stronger than that against Ceesay, adding, \u201cNot to throw her under the bus, it is stronger against his girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ceesay was ordered held without bail while Johnson\u2019s arraignment is pending.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Amanda Woods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old Bronx mom was allegedly held down by her thuggish neighbor while his girlfriend viciously stabbed her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,238,9,56,63,65,64,2442,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-83891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-murders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-stabbings","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83891","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=83891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}