Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced last week that a man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree Manslaughter for fatally stabbing his 73-year-old uncle in his South Bronx apartment in June 2018, and for fatally stabbing a woman in a security firm office in the Wakefield section of the Bronx a month later.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant mercilessly killed his elderly uncle, who had been battling cancer, and had won the lottery, for only a few dollars. Exactly a month later, the defendant went to the workplace of a woman considered to be a family friend and fatally stabbed her. The defendant’s actions left a child without a mother and a husband without a wife. I hope today’s sentence brings some sense of relief to the families of the victims.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Idris Abdul Muhaymin, 49, originally from Georgia, was sentenced today to 24 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio. The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree Manslaughter on January 4, 2022.
According to the investigation, Muhaymin went to the home of Owen Dillard, 73, at 352 Beekman Avenue on June 11, 2018. The defendant demanded money from the victim, who had recently won the lottery. Muhaymin then put Dillard in a chokehold and stabbed him multiple times with a sharp object. The victim sustained wounds to his head and neck and was pronounced dead at the scene. Video surveillance shows the defendant entering and leaving the victim’s home. He took a few dollars from the victim.
According to the NY Post, Dillard won a $10,000 lotto drawing in April and about seven months ago took home $50,000 from playing the lottery’s Win 4 game.’
On July 11, 2018, while the defendant was on the run from authorities, Muhaymin entered MNI Security Specialist Inc., at 888 East 233rd Street where the second victim, Wanda Rios, 45, worked. Video surveillance shows the victim, who was a family friend of Muhaymin, letting the defendant into the establishment. The defendant stabbed her repeatedly with a sharp object, causing her death. He fled the scene with electronic equipment. The victim was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Felicity Lung, Homicide Counsel in the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau, under the supervision of Rachel Ferrari, Chief of the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Adrienne Giunta, Deputy Chief of the Special Victims Division, and Joseph Muroff, Chief of the Special Victims Division.
District Attorney Clark thanked Trial Preparation Assistant Anthony Okaneme of the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau for his assistance in the case.
