the fatal stabbing of 93-year-old Lafayette Dailey<\/a>, as prosecutors announced murder charges against the suspect in the case.<\/p>\nDailey\u2019s body was discovered Dec. 5 inside his home on the 4500 block of N. 16th Street in Logan, though authorities now believe he was killed two days earlier. The elderly man had been stabbed several times in the chest and suffered head trauma, according to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n
Investigators have been told that Coy Thomas \u2013 the 53-year-old man apprehended Sunday in connection with the homicide \u2013 previously lived on the block.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do at least have an indication that they did somewhat know each other in a neighborly way,\u201d Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski told reporters at a news conference.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage shows Thomas walking up to Dailey\u2019s porch Dec. 3 and leaving the house on the same day, officials said. He is captured getting into the elderly man\u2019s sedan and driving away, according to authorities. There were no signs of forced entry, Toczylowski added.<\/p>\n
The District Attorney\u2019s Office said detectives recovered the car, a Chrysler 300, Dec. 9 on the 2500 block of W. Hagert Street in North Philadelphia. A man reported that he had recently purchased the vehicle from Thomas for $900, investigators added.<\/p>\n
Dailey\u2019s wallet was taken from the scene, and prosecutors allege that Thomas tried multiple times to use the victim\u2019s debit card.<\/p>\n
Thomas has been charged with criminal homicide, robbery, theft and related crimes. He is being held without bail, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 29. The Defender Association, which is representing Thomas, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Dailey, a military veteran, was a regular at the West Oak Lane Senior Center, and friends alerted his relatives when he did not show up for a couple of days, according to Toczylowski. His family visited the house and found his body, she added.<\/p>\n
A viewing and service for Dailey is scheduled for the morning of Thursday, Dec. 18, at Deliverance Evangelistic Church in North Philadelphia, according to a post on the website for Jason Lloyd Funeral Home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jack Tomczuk New details emerged Monday about the fatal stabbing of 93-year-old Lafayette Dailey, as prosecutors announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33315,33314,30866,33316,69,71,70,2794],"class_list":{"0":"post-61849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-coy-thomas","9":"tag-lafayette-dailey","10":"tag-logan","11":"tag-murder-charges","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-stabbing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849","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=61849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}