An arrest was made Monday in the 1996 killing of a 33-year-old woman in the Bronx, NYPD officials announced.
Gregory Fleetwood, 66, also of the Bronx, was arrested murder charges for the death of Jasmine Porter. The circumstances surrounding his arrest weren't immediately clear, but officials said DNA was key to the investigation, as the cold case was cracked thanks to a tip and a fresh genetic match.
According to police, Porter was found dead in the building where she lived on Feb. 5, 1996. Officers found the 33-year-old at her Davidson Avenue residence unconscious with neck trauma.
Police said Monday that Fleetwood raped and strangled her in front of her 5-year-old son, with the boy left in the apartment with his dead mother for a full day before they were discovered.
The tip that police got led them to testing the DNA under her Porter's fingernails, which was found to be a match to Fleetwood's. A sample from Fleetwood was already in the police system because he had already been convicted of an eerily similar crime.
In 1987, he was convicted of raping and strangling another woman. He was behind bars until 1994, when he was let out, only to strike again two years later.
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Attorney information for Fleetwood was not immediately clear.
