2nd suspect arrested in death of 74-year-old Maria Hernandez on Upper West Side
NEW YORK -- A second man is now under arrest in the death of an Upper West Side woman found tied up and gagged inside her apartment.
Police say 53-year-old Terrence Moore, of Brooklyn, is charged with murder and two counts of burglary.
He was arrested around 11 p.m. Tuesday on the Upper West Side.
Police say he and another suspect, Lashawn Mackey, killed 74-year-old Maria Hernandez while robbing her West 83rd Street apartment last week.
Police sources tell CBS2 Mackey worked as a porter in Hernandez's building and used a key to access her apartment. Sources say he also removed surveillance video equipment from the basement office beforehand.
Hernandez and her sister went to a Broadway show earlier in the evening, and she returned home around 7 p.m., sources say. Mackey and Moore allegedly entered the apartment some time after that and bound and gagged her on the floor, sources say.
Police sources say Hernandez died of homicide by asphyxiation.
It's still unclear why her home was targeted and what was taken.