Queens man convicted of brutally murdering mother and brother in family home
EAST ELMHURST, NY – A Queens jury has convicted a 42-year-old man in the savage double homicide of his mother and brother, whose mutilated bodies were discovered last summer in and around the East Elmhurst home they shared.
Roscoe Danielson was found guilty on multiple charges, including two counts of second-degree murder, for the July 2023 killings of his 70-year-old mother, Cheryl Myrick, and 31-year-old brother, Kyle Danielson. He now faces up to 50 years to life in prison when sentenced on October 27.
According to trial evidence, Roscoe Danielson fatally stabbed his mother 38 times in the neck and torso before turning on his brother, who was shot once and stabbed approximately 50 times in the head, neck, and chest. Both murders occurred on July 4, 2023.
The following morning, Danielson was seen dragging a large black garbage bag along 104th Street and leaving it on the curb outside 32-41 104th Street. Hours later, officers responded to the location after neighbors reported a foul odor. Inside the bag, police found Kyle Danielson’s decomposing body wrapped in plastic and blankets.
Roscoe Danielson was arrested later that evening around 8 p.m. while pushing his young son in a stroller with a black bag hanging from the handle. Inside the bag, police recovered a 9mm handgun and a knife.
A search warrant executed at the family’s East Elmhurst home early the next morning revealed the body of Cheryl Myrick inside a second-floor bedroom. Both victims had been dead for over 24 hours.
The case was prosecuted by the Queens District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau following a two-week trial that began on September 10. The jury returned a guilty verdict after just three hours of deliberation.
Danielson was also convicted of four counts of tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of weapons, concealment of a human corpse, and endangering the welfare of a child.
He remains in custody awaiting sentencing.
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Key Points
- Roscoe Danielson, 42, was convicted of murdering his mother and brother in their East Elmhurst home
- Victims suffered dozens of stab wounds; one was also shot and later dumped in a trash bag on the street
- Danielson faces up to 50 years to life when sentenced on October 27