New details are now emerging about a domestic violence incident on Monday afternoon in Drexel Hill that turned deadly.<\/p>\n
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Action News, Upper Darby Township police were called to a home along the 4600 block of State Road for a report of a woman in cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n
When officers got there, the complaint states they found a man outside of the home screaming that his mother, identified as 51-year-old Michelle Fleming, was dead.<\/p>\n
“When officers went inside, it was immediately apparent that she was deceased and suffering from multiple stab wounds,” said Upper Darby Township Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt.<\/p>\n
He said Fleming had been stabbed 12 times in the chest.<\/p>\n
Upper Darby street blocked off due to domestic-related incident<\/p>\n
As officers investigated on the scene, Bernhardt said they learned Fleming had another son, identified as 20-year-old Quadir Ford.<\/p>\n
Bernhardt said Ford had left Fleming’s home that afternoon in her car with her phone.<\/p>\n
Upper Darby Township police were able to track Ford to Springfield Township, where police there stopped the car and took Ford into custody.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint states that while in custody, “Ford admitted to killing his mother with a silver knife after an argument, and then placed the knife, a pair of gloves, and a mask that were utilized during the homicide into a trash can in the rear of the property.”<\/p>\n
Bernhardt said police have had prior contact with Ford, but he said they had never responded to a domestic incident between him and his mother in the past.<\/p>\n
Bernhardt said Ford admitted to investigators that his relationship with his mother was strained.<\/p>\n
“The two of them were very accusatory toward each other over the course of the years,” Bernhardt said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when family members result to that type of violence,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ford is now facing several charges, including first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
According to Bernhardt, domestic violence cases in the township have been on the rise since the end of 2025. He said the ‘Domestic Abuse Project’ has help available 24\/7 at police headquarters.<\/p>\n
“People just aren’t taking the opportunity to get that help, or separating themselves from those individuals they are in that toxic relationship with,” he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details are now emerging about a domestic violence incident on Monday afternoon in Drexel Hill that turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[82586,8467,82584,82585,82587,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-206485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-bernhardt","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-michelle-fleming","tag-quadir-ford","tag-superintendent-timothy-bernhardt","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}