{"id":94182,"date":"2026-01-08T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:27:23","slug":"man-arrested-3-years-after-strangling-father-to-death-at-bronx-home-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94182\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested 3 years after strangling father to death at Bronx home: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been arrested nearly three years after he strangled his 48-year-old father to death<\/a> inside his Bronx apartment, cops said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Essa Kouyate, 26, was apprehended by U.S. marshals last month in Washington State, where he was held in a Skagit County jail until his extradition to New York City this week for the murder of Yaya Kouyate, cops said.<\/p>\n

Records show he was detained in Skagit County from Dec. 13 until Jan. 7. He was charged with murder at New York\u2019s 42nd Precinct stationhouse on Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The victim was found dead on the bathroom floor of his apartment on Hoe Ave. near Jennings St. in Crotona Park East<\/a> around 10:30 a.m. on April 14, 2023, police said.<\/p>\n

1463 Hoe Ave.<\/p>\n

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Police are investigating the death of Yaya Kouyate, who was found strangled in his Bronx apartment on Hoe Ave.<\/p>\n

Marks were found on the victim\u2019s neck and the city\u2019s medical examiner later declared his death was from strangulation, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Essa Kouyate was living in Sedro-Woolley, Washington<\/a>, a small town with a population of around 13,000, when federal officers caught up with him, cops said.<\/p>\n

Yaya Kouyate came to the U.S. from Africa\u2019s Ivory Coast around three decades ago, first obtaining work in the city as a cook before pivoting during the COVID lockdown to being an Amazon deliveryman and Uber driver, an uncle told the Daily News shortly after his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a good guy,\u201d Abdoulaye Kouyate, 72, said. \u201cI feel bad. I feel horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested nearly three years after he strangled his 48-year-old father to death inside his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94183,"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-94182","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\/94182","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=94182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}