Kareem Flake pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend by shooting her in the head and then putting her in the trunk of a car in Queens (NYC) before fleeing to Florida, where he was eventually arrested.
Destiny Smothers I was 26 years old and disappeared after celebrating her birthday with friends in a bowling alley in the Woodside neighborhood, in November 2020. His body was found with various injuries in a car four months later in Queens.
Flake, 31, faces 22 years in prison when he is sentenced on September 28, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced. patch.com. He was arrested for manslaughter on April 9, 2022 in Osceola County, Florida and later extradited to New York.
The dramatic find was made by a crane operator who was removing a Toyota Camry that had been abandoned at the intersection of 134th Avenue and 151st Place in the South Jamaica neighborhood on March 10, 2021. Law enforcement sources said the car belonged to Flake.
Smothers died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the New York City Medical Examiner. She was last seen in a car with Flake after celebrating her birthday with her friends and reported missing five days later, the prosecutor recalled. The motive for the crime is not clear. The victim she was the mother of two small children and lived in Troy (NY), near Albany.
In a similar case, last month Evelin Barajas Pérez, a 23-year-old girl, was found dead with stab wounds inside her home in Staten Island (NYC) after fighting with her boyfriend.
