A Lengthy Island girl has been indicted for allegedly stabbing her ex-boyfriend to dying exterior an LIRR prepare station in Bay Shore earlier this month, prosecutors introduced Monday.
Nikeya Barker, 44, of Bay Shore, is accused of stabbing Shurvell Rush within the chest shortly after the 2 obtained into an argument about an incident that occurred after they had been a pair.
Prosecutors mentioned the confrontation started on the prepare station on the night of Could 3. Barker then adopted Rush to a close-by townhouse advanced, the place she stabbed him within the parking zone.
Suffolk County police had been dispatched to the world round 6:45 p.m., the place they positioned the 47-year-old sufferer with a stab wound to the chest.
He was transported to South Shore College Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
Surveillance video reportedly exhibits Barker following Rush into the parking zone the place his physique was discovered. She may very well be seen holding “a large knife in her hand,” prosecutors mentioned.
Footage from the world additionally exhibits Barker discarding the knife in close by bushes, in keeping with police.
Barker surrendered to authorities three days later.
On Monday, she was arraigned on a second-degree homicide cost and ordered held with out bail during the case.
Barker faces 25 years to life in jail if convicted. She’s due again in court docket on July 2.
