Suspect arrested in girl’s stays present in suitcase in Huntington – NBC New York
A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection to the stays of a girl discovered stuffed inside a suitcase on Lengthy Island, in accordance with police.
Ronald Schroeder was caught by MTA police at Penn Station in Manhattan simply earlier than 2 p.m. on Friday, Suffolk County Police mentioned. The 31-year-old Schroeder was charged with concealment of a human corpse after the physique of Seikeya Jones was found in a suitcase on Sept. 3. MTA police additionally charged with with third-degree possession of a managed substance.
Lawyer info for Schroeder was not instantly out there.
The suitcase was present in a wooded space behind an residence constructing in Huntington. The health worker remains to be figuring out how the 31-year-old Jones died.
Those that knew Jones stopped by the place she was discovered as thriller grows round how she ended up there.
“We known as her Keya,” Mary Waldron mentioned. “She was a extremely candy lady. She was all the time smiling. She was all the time joyful.”
Waldron advised reporters that Jones had run into some hassle and he or she “modified and sort of ended up on the streets.” Nonetheless, her buddies tried to maintain involved together with her.
Police confirmed Jones was homeless and that she was reported lacking final month. It wasn’t the primary time she had been reported lacking, her buddies mentioned.
Residents on the residence constructing the place Jones was discovered confirmed NBC New York a doorbell video that appeared to point out her strolling inside final week with an unidentified man. Two individuals who knew her confirmed that it was Jones within the blurry footage.
It was not clear whether or not the person seen on that video was Schroeder, or if he was linked in any method to the continued investigation.
Seikeya Jones’ physique was left behind an residence constructing in Huntington, in accordance with Suffolk County police. The ugly discovery occurred earlier than midday on Tuesday in a wooded space alongside Nassau Street in Huntington, police mentioned.
Anybody with info is requested to contact Suffolk County Police Murder Squad detectives at (631) 852-6392 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.
