Lifesaving measures were initiated by responding officers and emergency personnel, but they failed.Ī detective interviewed a 17-year-old witness at the scene who said Harrison Boakye and Winifred Boakye had been arguing and that the situation devolved into a physical fight. Officers found Winifred Boakye unresponsive inside a bathroom on the second floor of the residence. Harrison Boakye, who was incarcerated at Berks County Prison without bail on the original charges, was awaiting arraignment on the additional charges Wednesday afternoon. It was determined she was killed by manual strangulation. The new charges are based on an autopsy performed Monday at Reading Hospital, where Winifred’s death was ruled a homicide. Harrison Adu Boakye, 46, also of the first block of Middletown Road, initially was arraigned Friday on charges of aggravated and simple assault in relation to the incident.īut the Berks County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday that additional charges of first- and third-degree murder and strangulation have been levied against him. She was pronounced dead at the scene around 10:15 a.m. Emergency personnel tried to revive her but were unsuccessful. Winifred Boakye, 33, of the first block of Middletown Road, was found unresponsive inside her home Friday by police responding to a report of domestic assault. A Richmond Township woman who was killed in a domestic incident last week was strangled to death, and the man responsible has been charged with murder, officials announced Wednesday.
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