NEW YORK — A former Connecticut man was jailed with out bail Friday after being extradited from California to face costs within the strangulation demise of a lady he had met on a relationship app, prosecutors in New York stated.
Danueal Drayton, 31, was arraigned within the New York Metropolis borough of Queens on costs together with homicide, sexual misconduct and grand larceny within the July 2018 demise of Samantha Stewart, a nurse who he had related with on Tinder.
Authorities stated Drayton, previously of New Haven, Connecticut, went on a date with the 29-year-old Stewart on July 16, 2018. As soon as inside Stewart’s condominium in Queens, Drayton beat and strangled Stewart and “engaged in sexual conduct” along with her useless physique, District Lawyer Melinda Katz stated.
Drayton then stole Stewart’s bank cards and used one in every of them to purchase a aircraft ticket to California, prosecutors stated.
Drayton, who authorities say has a protracted historical past of violence in opposition to ladies together with arrests for illegal imprisonment and strangulation in Connecticut, was accused of attempting to choke one other girl to demise in North Hollywood shortly after he arrived in California, authorities stated. The North Hollywood case is pending.
Drayton was extradited from California on Thursday. He faces as much as 25 years to life in jail for Stewart’s killing.
Katz referred to as the younger nurse’s demise “a brutal crime that makes each particular person utilizing a relationship app fearful.” She stated Stewart “was duped into going out on a date with the defendant, who performed a charmer on-line however was in reality an alleged sexual predator.”
A message looking for remark was left with an legal professional for Drayton.