Police Nab Suspect in Turtle Bay Murder of Fashion Model

Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of aspiring runway model Victoria Goode, 27, who was stabbed to death in a brutal assault on December 16 allegedly by her roommate in a shelter in Turtle Bay.

The alleged murderer, Charmaine Crossman was still wearing the same pink sweater she was wearing on surveillance video and photos circulated by police after the murder. She turned herself into police in the 69th Pct in Canarsie, four days after she alleged slabbed her roommate to death and has been charged with second degree murder.

Goode had reportedly appeared in fashion runway shows and had been featured on the cover of Vogue Mexico although more recently had struggled to find work.

According to cops, Crossman, who was remanded without bail, had in the past shown she had a Jamaican passport, but it was not on her at the time of her arrest.

Goode, who reportedly arrived in the city five years ago, was living in the Project Renewal Shelter on East 45th St. near Third Ave. where she shared a room with Crossman. Police said said that almost the entire assault was captured on video and that the assailant had tossed the knife she used in the brutal attack into a trash bin on the corner of the street, where it was recovered by police on the night of the assault.

Police said a witness to the brutal assault had been smoking marijuana with Goode in the room she shared with Crossman. She told cops that Crossman came into the room and started spraying the victim and friend with air freshener.

The victim threw a blanket at Crossman who then, according to police statements, pulled a knife and began stabbing the victim. Police and EMS rushed the victim from a sixth floor hallway where she had staggered after the attack to Bellevue Hospital but medical doctors there were not able to save her from puncture wounds to her left chest, left arm, left shoulder blade and inner thigh.

Detective Robert Admirand said at the time he arrested Crossman, the suspect was still wearing the same clothes she had on in the surveillance video distributed by police shortly after the attack. He said her pink sweater appeared to have dried blood on it.

The family has contacted New York City attorney Sanford Rubenstein, who said he will be filing a wrongful death suit. He also said the family wants Crossman to face the maximum penalty allowed by law.

Daemen King, her brother who had started a Go Fund Me page to pay for his sister’s funeral to bring her home to Oklahoma City told the Daily News that his sister had lived with friends and at times in various shelters and was hoping to get placed into more permanent housing by the city. He said his sister had been afraid of her roommate for some time and had asked to be transferred to another room but the request was never granted. He said she had been planning to return to Oklahoma City for Christmas. Instead, he said her parents are now planning for her funeral, which is being complicated by the severe weather hitting the Midwest. “We’re still going to get together as a family and just hold each other close,” King told the Daily News. “Her older brother has three children and the oldest is 9 so they don’t understand what is going on,” he said. “We’re going to try and have Christmas for them.”

He said he and his parents planned to attend the trial. “My parents are just relieved that [Crossman’s] not going to get away with it.”

A Go Fund Me page started by King had raised $5,469 by mid-day Thursday toward a goal of $10,000 to pay for her funeral costs. “Please help us lay our beloved Victoria Jade Goode to rest,” he wrote on the GoFundMe page. “We appreciate any help at this time as as our family try to navigate through this process.”

One donor, identified only as Bre W, who donated $50 wrote, “Victoria was a sweet young woman who spoke highly of her parents and family. To see a friend’s life cut short is heart breaking. Prayers to her parents and family. Sleep well Vicky the family that you made in nyc will you and will advocate for you.”