Crime & Safety
Man Admits To Beating Wife To Death In Brooklyn Home
The suspect was arraigned on Wednesday.
BROOKLYN, NY — A man accused of killing his wife inside their Brooklyn home has been arraigned.
Mauricio Granda, 47, admitted to prosecutors that he beat his wife to death with a tool.
Officers responded to a building on 79th Street near Third Ave. in Bay Ridge around 9:30 a.m. on Monday and found Maria Ines Granda, 59, with head trauma.
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She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The city’s medical examiner determined that the woman died of blunt force trauma to the head.
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An investigation remains ongoing.
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