DNA Found Under Victim’s Fingernails Matched to Defendant in 2022
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for first-degree Manslaughter for the 1996 fatal strangling of a pregnant woman.
District Attorney Clark said, “Three decades ago the defendant carried out a horrific attack on a pregnant woman with her 5-year-old son forced to bear witness. After a relentless pursuit of justice including advancements in DNA, her killer is being held accountable and there is some solace for her child.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Gregory Fleetwood, 69, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio. The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree Manslaughter on December 10, 2025.
According to the investigation, on February 5, 1996, inside of 1706 Davidson Avenue in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, the defendant choked Jasmine Porter, 36, to death in her apartment in front of her 5-year-old son. The boy was left alone with his mother’s body for two days before it was found. DNA was found under the victim’s fingernails. After advancements in forensic technology the fingernails were tested and matched Fleetwood’s DNA which was in the database because he had served time in prison for strangling a pregnant woman in 1987.
District Attorney Clark thanked retired NYPD Lieutenant Sean O’ Toole and retired NYPD Detective Robert Klein of Bronx Homicide, and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Biology Department for their work in the investigation.
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