A New York man who confessed to the gruesome slaying of his mother sexually assaulted her as he beat and strangled her, prosecutors revealed Sunday night, May 9. Pushkar Sharma, aged 28, from Queens, told police he woke up the morning before Mother’s Day “with an uncontrollable urge to hurt someone,” according to a criminal complaint.
About 8 a.m. Saturday, he went down to the basement of the family home on Winchester Blvd. near Braddock Ave. in Bellerose Manor and attacked his mother, prosecutors said.
Sharma allegedly approached his 65-year old mother from behind, wrapped his hands around her throat, and started choking and punching her in the face. She struggled for several minutes as the horrific attack continued.
She allegedly did not stop or slow down after striking Tsakos and continued to travel several exits before taking the Horace Harding Expressway off-ramp. That’s when her vehicle jumped the curb and mounted the sidewalk, where police
surrounded her vehicle. Beauvais allegedly tried to flee the scene again, putting her car in reverse and ramming the police vehicle behind her once before stopping.
Beauvais was then taken into custody. Police say she admitted drinking and smoking pot before getting behind the wheel that late April morning. A tearful Beauvais apologized shortly after her arrest as she was led from a police station in handcuffs, telling reporters, “I’m sorry because I hit him and that he’s dead.”
UpdatedMon, May 10, 2021 at 4:09 pm ET
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A Long Island woman was indicted for manslaughter, and a slew of other charges, after she struck and killed an NYPD officer on the Long Island Expressway in the morning of April 27. (Shutterstock)
QUEENS A Long Island woman has been indicted on manslaughter charges after being accused of hitting and killing an NYPD officer on the Long Island Expressway while driving with a blood alcohol content nearly two times the legal limit.
Early in the morning of April 27, Jessica Beauvais, 32, was speeding down the Long Island Expressway near the ramp entrance to the Clearview Expressway when she hit father-of-two Anastasios Tsakos, 43, who was directing traffic at the scene of another fatal crash, according to the Queens District Attorney and NYPD officials.
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