Unprovoked killer stomped on social worker with ‘heavy boots’ after she knocked on wrong apartment door: Prosecutors

Maria Coto, Hasseem Jenkins

Left inset: Maria Coto (WABC). Right: Hasseem Jenkins appears in court on July 30, 2024 (News 12).

Two months after authorities said a Department of Social Services caseworker knocked on the wrong apartment door and was stomped on in an unprovoked attack, and one month after she died from her injuries, the suspect appeared in a New York courtroom on Tuesday to face an indictment on murder charges and several other criminal counts.

On May 14th, the City of Peekskill Police Department said that an assault was reported in the afternoon at an apartment on South Street and that 56-year-old Maria Coto was found “unconscious” at the scene, “having sustained serious head injuries.”

Hasseem Jenkins, 31, was also at the scene, authorities said, and he was booked thereafter into the Westchester County Jail where he’s been held since on attempted murder and assault charges. The suspect was allegedly wearing “heavy boots” as he stomped on Coto.

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