NYPD arrest suspect for 2015 execution of Bronx mother

Police cars are parked outside the 40th NYPD Precinct in Mott Haven on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
Police cars are parked outside the 40th NYPD Precinct in Mott Haven on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
Photo Camille Botello

Police have made an arrest in the 2015 execution murder of a Bronx woman on Tuesday — finally marking a breakthrough in the horrific cold case.

NYPD officers slapped the cuffs on 34-year-old Lasalle Herman, accusing him of shooting Michelle Cox on March 4, 2015.

Cox, 41-year-old a mother of five, was found dead in the stairwell of her apartment building at 1958 Webster Ave, after she had been walking home from the store at around 10 p.m.

No suspects were arrested for the crime for over 8 years, until authorities finally made an arrest on Jan. 30.

Herman, a Harlem resident, is currently awaiting arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court on charges of murder.


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