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, an

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