Police have arrested the older lover of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl who has been charged with murdering her mother and the woman's boyfriend in late December.
Jerry Maisonett, 28, was taken into custody in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn shortly before midnight Tuesday and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the slayings of Rosie Sanchez, 38, and 40-year-old Anderson Nunez.
Sanchez's teenage daughter, Destiny Garcia, was indicted last week in the couple’s double murder after she confessed to killing her mother and Nunez on the night of December 28.
She then left their bodies to decompose inside the family's apartment in Sheepshead Bay Houses for six days.
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Boyfriend charged: Jerry Maisonett, 28 (left), pictured in court Wednesday, is accused of helping his 15-year-old girlfriend, Destiny Garcia (right), murder her mother and the woman's boyfriend in December
Garcia claimed that she was running away from abuse at home. In her first account she claimed that Anderson Nunez (right) had abused her, but in her second account she changed her story claiming that her mother Rosie Sanchez (left) was actually the abuser
Detectives first learned of Maisonett's alleged involvement in the killings after the 15-year-old fingered her lover as her partner in crime.
Police believe the 28-year-old man shot Nunez to death and later stabbed him 'to make sure he was dead,' according to a criminal complaint obtained by New York Daily News.
The New York Times reported, citing law enforcement officials, that Nunez suffered as many as 30 stab wounds all over his body.
The 28-year-old suspect also allegedly handed a gun to Garcia, and even cocked the weapon for her, so she could shoot her mother.
Garcia told police in a taped confession that her boyfriend suffered a cut to his hand during the bloody attack, and police used DNA evidence found in the apartment to track him down.
Maisonett has a past criminal record that includes charges of burglary, assault and drug possession.
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Nabbed: Maisonett was charged Wednesday with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon
The 28-year-old allegedly shot Nunez multiple times and then repeatedly stabbed him to make sure the man was dead. Police tracked down Maisonett using DNA evidence found at the crime scene
A Brooklyn teenage girl indicted for the murder of her mom and mother's boyfriend says she was trying to escape from alleged abuse she endured at home.
In two statements made to the police, Destiny Sanchez claimed she killed her mother and Nunez to escape from abuse she endured at home.
Investigators said that while her mother and stepfather's corpses were rotting in the family apartment, Garcia partied at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.
On January 3, six days after the killings, police entered the family's blood-stained apartment and found Sanchez's decomposing body slumped in an easy chair with multiple gunshot wounds.
Nunez was discovered lying dead on the living room floor, reported Eyewitness News.
Garcia had initially implicated her godbrother Jordan Santiago in her first statement on January 3 but in her second statement - given the next day - she removed Santiago and included her boyfriend, Jerry Maisonett, as the accomplice, said the New York Daily News.
The teen went on to describe how her mother had physically abused her and how she had planned to go and live with a cousin.
On the night of the killing, Sanchez apparently caught Garcia with her bags packed and after the pair got into an argument, her mother apparently punched her in the face several times, according to a statement obtained by the newspaper.
Garcia told police that her 28-year-old boyfriend Jerry Maisonett was the accomplice in the murders of her mom and stepdad, pictured. She had initially implicated her godbrother Jordan Santiago
Garcia originally confessed to her cousin Jason Valentin, who subsequently turned her in to the police. He told the New York Daily News, that he did not believe her abuse story
Following the argument, she called her boyfriend and asked him for a gun 'for protection', which he is said to have brought to her on the night of the 28th.
The account, reported by the New York Daily News, revealed that on that night Sanchez had beaten Garcia, before going back into her bedroom.
Garcia then got the gun from a drawer and went into her mother's bedroom and shot at her, which after a second attempt, hit Sanchez in the neck.
Just days after the killings, Garcia apparently partied in Times Square for New Years Eve, while the bodies of Nunez and Sanchez rotted in the family apartment. Pictured: Authorities remove the bodies
Nunez, who was in the room at the time, then attempted to grab the gun but after Garcia called out for Maisonett, he entered the scene, retrieving the gun and shooting Nunez in the back.
After running out of bullets, the pair then stabbed Sanchez and Nunez with a knife Garcia fetched from the kitchen to make sure both were dead.
She confessed to her cousin Jason Valentin on January 3 and Valentin, who then turned her in, said at the time that he did not believe the abuse story, saying that he believed someone had coached her to say it.
But grandmother Jenny Perez said she believed her granddaughter's story and that she had seen Nunez touching her inappropriately.
Garcia had initially told investigators that Nunez had sexually abused her and that her mother had turned a blind eye, but while in custody she changed her story, saying that it was her mother who was the abuser.
A Facebook page has since been set up in dedication to the dead couple, called RIP 'Rosie Sanchez and Andy Nuñez', where it offers users a space to 'leave heartfelt messages for your dear friends who were lost in this terrible tragedy' but adds: 'no hate on this wall'.
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