{"id":88280,"date":"2026-01-03T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:00:08","slug":"neighbor-who-knifed-bronx-mom-to-death-arraigned-in-hospital-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88280\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor who knifed Bronx mom to death arraigned in hospital for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 24-year-old woman accused of knifing a Bronx mother to death in their apartment building\u2019s elevator<\/a> was ordered held without bail on Friday at a bedside arraignment where she remained hospitalized, officials said.<\/p>\n

Beyonce Johnson is facing murder, manslaughter and weapons possession charges for stabbing 30-year-old Shashamanie Thompson<\/a> in the stomach and left eye inside the building on Ogden Ave. near W. 167th St. in Highbridge around 10 p.m. on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

A Bronx Criminal Court judge ordered her held without bail during the hospital bed arraignment.<\/p>\n

Johnson was in an ongoing dispute with Thompson over the victim\u2019s dog being left in the hallway, cops said.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s boyfriend, 21-year-old Saleh Ceesay, who lives about 2 miles away, was arrested with her at the scene and is also facing murder and manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe keeps a dog in the hallway,\u201d Johnson told cops after they were taken into custody, according to court documents. Residents had \u201csnitched\u201d on the victim to management about the situation, she added.<\/p>\n

\"ShashamanieShashamanie Thompson was stabbed to death during a fight in her Bronx apartment building on Ogden Ave. near W. 167th St. in the Bronx on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Sheetal Banchariya \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Though Thompson had eventually rehomed the dog, the long-running feud flared up again when she ran into Johnson and Ceesay in the lobby of their building, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

After they all got into the elevator together, Johnson allegedly whipped a knife out of her purse and stabbed Thompson. Ceesay is accused of grabbing Thompson in a headlock and punching her as the slaying unfolded.<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s 9-year-old son was spending the holidays with his grandparents at the time of her murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI picked him up the day before Christmas,\u201d the victim\u2019s father, Mark Thompson, told the Daily News. \u201cNew Year\u2019s, we were going to spend over there with him and his mother. That was the intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ShashamanieShashamanie Thompson (pictured) was stabbed to death during a fight in her Bronx apartment building on Ogden Ave. near W. 167th St. in the Bronx on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Obtained by New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Mark, who created a GoFundMe<\/a> to help support his grandson, remembered his daughter as a \u201clovely person\u201d with a \u201cgood heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA strong person. She\u2019s a fighter. She don\u2019t give up,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, for that to happen to her, it would have to take two people to do that to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ceesay was arraigned right away and ordered held without bail as Johnson, who\u2019s bipolar, was taken to an area hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. She remained in the hospital following her arraignment.<\/p>\n

\"SalehSaleh Ceesay, left, is pictured next to his attorney, Edward Sapone, during his arraignment in the Bronx on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Tomas E. Gaston \/ Pool)<\/p>\n

Shashamanie, with her dying breaths, named the suspect\u2019s apartment number, according to prosecutors, telling cops, \u201cThe girl in 6D did this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson has two prior arrests, including for criminal contempt, harassment and violating an order of protection in November 2021. The victim in that case was a 19-year-old woman. In April 2018, Johnson was arrested for criminal mischief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old woman accused of knifing a Bronx mother to death in their apartment building\u2019s elevator was ordered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-88280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280","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=88280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}