SUSPECT INDICTED FOR THE STRANGULATION MURDERS OF A BRONX WOMAN AND HER 9-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN FEBRUARY 1988
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a 46-year-old man was arrested and charged with murdering a 26-year-old woman and her 9-year-old daughter in February 1988.
Robert Fleming, of 1160 Colgate Avenue, the Bronx, was indicted by a grand jury on 11 counts of Murder in the 2nd degree in the deaths of Selina Cooper and her daughter Joi Little. Fleming was charged with 2 counts of “intentionally” causing the deaths of the victims, and 9 additional counts of felony murder during the alleged commission of rape, sodomy and other sexual offenses against the victims. The alleged sex crimes could not be charged however, because they had occurred beyond the statute of limitations.
Fleming was arraigned before State Supreme Court Justice John Byrne and ordered held without bail. Fleming is next scheduled to appear in court on April 23, 2009 in Part 40.
The murders occurred on February 29, 1988 in Cooper’s apartment on East 174th Street in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. Today’s arrest was the result of information developed by New York City Police Detectives assigned to the Cold Case Squad.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Nancy Borko is prosecuting the case.
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