A Lengthy Island house well being aide allegedly stabbed her sleeping aged affected person with a chef’s knife and held the blade in her physique for an “excruciating” 16 minutes, based on prosecutors.
Amanda Fraser, 23, was indicted on tried homicide prices for allegedly stabbing her 84-year-old affected person as she slept in her Massapequa house within the early hours of Oct. 29, Nassau County District Legal professional Anne Donnelly introduced Friday.
Fraser, of Queens, allegedly entered the unidentified lady’s house round 2:08 a.m. and walked into her bed room earlier than forcefully plunging an eight-inch blade into her torso, an investigation and video proof revealed.
The aged affected person wakened, “moaning in ache,” and tried to take away the knife from her physique, authorities added.
Nonetheless, Fraser allegedly held a grip on the knife deal with and ominously advised the affected person, “Simply let go,” and “cease combating it,” whereas the blade was nonetheless inside her.
By 2:24 a.m., Fraser pulled the knife from the lady’s physique and left her house, based on the DA.
When cops arrived hours later for a requested welfare examine at round 8:30 a.m., they discovered the aged sufferer bleeding from her stab wound.
She was rushed to Nassau College Medical Heart for a puncture wound to her lung, authorities mentioned.
“In the course of the evening as her aged affected person laid in her mattress, this defendant allegedly brandished an roughly eight-inch blade and plunged it into the sleeping lady’s physique,” Donnelly mentioned in a press release.
“For an excruciating 16 minutes as the lady moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the lady’s house well being aide – held the knife agency in her physique and repeatedly whispered for the lady to succumb,” she mentioned.
“When she didn’t die, the defendant left the house, and the lady she was employed to take care of, bleeding and alone in her mattress,” Donnely added.
“Households depend on the ability and compassion of house well being aides to take care of ailing family members. This defendant allegedly solely introduced ache and horror to their lives.”
The sufferer remained within the hospital for therapy of an an infection that stemmed from the stab wound till this week, authorities mentioned.
Police additionally found Fraser’s Dodge Charger parked in the midst of her affected person’s entrance garden, officers added.
The well being aide was arrested in Queens afterward Oct. 29 by Nassau County cops.
Fraser went to the hospital for a psychiatric analysis earlier than she could possibly be arraigned, sources advised CBS.
Her employer, Aides at Dwelling, advised the outlet that the tragic stabbing was an remoted incident.
“The investigation is ongoing. We’re cooperating totally,” a supervisor on the Hicksville workplace advised the outlet.
Representatives for Aides at Dwelling didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Submit.
Fraser was arraigned on Friday on indictment prices of second-degree tried homicide, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a weak aged individual, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or bodily disabled individual, prosecutors introduced.
She was ordered held with out bail and can return to court docket on Dec. 9.
If convicted, Fraser faces as much as 25 years behind bars, based on the DA.
