An aspiring mannequin in New York City was stabbed to dying earlier this month after an argument about loud music at a Manhattan homeless girls’s shelter.
Victoria Goode, 27, was fatally stabbed on December 16 after an obvious disagreement along with her roommate on the homeless shelter the place she had been staying. The up-and-coming mannequin reportedly bought right into a verbal battle along with her shelter roommate, who police have recognized as 42-year-old Charmaine Croffman (pictured within the inset, above).
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The disagreement happened on the Project Renewal New Providence Women’s Shelter on East forty fifth Street in Manhattan, police say. At some level through the dispute, a number of information retailers report, Croffman allegedly stabbed Goode a number of instances. She then fled the scene as Goode perished from the terrible stab wounds.
Another shelter resident, Melinda Anders, instructed the New York Daily News what she noticed (under):
“I heard a lot of screaming and I came out, went upstairs and seen a lot of blood in the hallway. It made my stomach upset. That’s something I can’t forget. … I heard it all the way down on the second floor.”
Cops had been referred to as and shortly started investigating the killing. According to People, the assault was allegedly caught on surveillance video. Upon fleeing from the scene, Croffman was reportedly seen “tossing the bloody knife into a trash bin in the street” and leaving the world.
Over the following few days, police couldn’t find Croffman. Detectives put out a CrimeStoppers bulletin with Croffman’s picture (as proven within the insert, above) and requested New Yorkers to be looking out for her round city.
After greater than 4 days on the run, cops lastly tracked her down elsewhere in New York City. She has since been charged with homicide. Per People, it’s unclear whether or not she has retained an legal professional or entered a plea within the case.
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As for Goode, she had moved to NYC from Oklahoma City 5 years earlier to pursue a runway modeling profession. According to her brother, who spoke to the Daily News, she had lately performed a shoot with VOGUE Mexico. Since then, although, Victoria had been struggling to make ends meet. Recently, she had been staying in girls’s shelters and on quick discover with pals whereas she tried to seek out extra everlasting housing within the metropolis.
Her father, James Goode, spoke to the New York Post from the household’s dwelling in Oklahoma. The grieving 65-year-old man recounted how his late daughter had been afraid of her roommate previous to her homicide:
“She feared for her life before the attack, that’s what her mother told me. She complained to the shelter more than once, and she called the cops too. My baby’s gone, my only daughter.”
So unhappy.
You can see extra concerning the stabbing and subsequent investigation (under):
Now, the aspiring mannequin’s household has launched a GoFundMe account to convey Victoria’s physique again to Oklahoma and canopy her funeral bills. You can go to that web page HERE.
We ship our condolences to the Goode household as they cope with this terrible loss.
R.I.P.
[Image via CrimeStoppers/Fox 5 New York/YouTube]