A 64-year-old woman was beaten to death outside her Queens home by a man she had hired during a dispute over money, police said Friday.
Cops were called to the corner of 103rd Ave. and 105th St. in Ozone Park at about 5:20 p.m. Thursday where they found Juliet Kashidas-Singh sprawled out on the ground.
Kashidas-Singh had been beaten and strangled on the steps of her home, cops said. She died of blunt impact injuries to her head and chest.
On Friday morning, dried blood could still be found on the concrete steps.
“This is really scary to have something like this happen,” neighbor Navin Persaud, 45, told the Daily News. “It’s really scary man, she was a good lady. I never seen anything bad going on.”
When Persaud returned home from work Thursday, police had already converged on Kashidas-Singh’s home. Then he saw a body on the steps.
“I was shocked. I wanted to know who is the person,” he recalled. “At first I thought somebody fainted or fall, but then I heard that the cops said somebody murdered or killed her.”
Police quickly arrested 40-year-old Francisco Sevilla, charging him with murder and weapons possession at about 1 a.m. Friday.
Investigators learned that Kashidas-Singh had hired Sevilla to perform a job for her, but either didn’t pay him or paid him less than he expected, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
The exact task she had hired him to perform was not immediately disclosed.
Sevilla also lived in Queens about seven blocks from Kashidas-Singh, cops said. His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Friday.
