Pulled Over for Running a Red Light….and Arrested for Murder

Irvington Police pulled over a car at 138am on May 28 for running a red light on South Broadway, Route 9. As police checked the driver’s license they found that 29-year old Natalia Suero was wanted for First Degree Murder in the death of her 2-year old son in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Suero’s son Jonathan died on March 12 under mysterious circumstances. Members of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department responded to the call that a 2-year old boy was found face up in a pond in NC. Ambulance crews and first responders could not revive the boy who was pronounced dead.

Taken into cus­tody with­out in­ci­dent, Ms. Suero was ar­raigned in Irv­ing­ton Vil­lage Court by Judge Desmond Lyons and was sub­se­quently re­manded to the Westch­ester County De­part­ment of Cor­rec­tions, await­ing ex­tra­di­tion back to North Car­olina. Natalia Suero gave police vague and inconsisten statements about how her son died, according to media reports, by saying she blacked out during the time of her son’s death and could not provide a timeline.

A search warrant for Suero’s apartment yielded phone records that supported a police theory that the mother was lying about the fact that she found her son lying face up in the water. The CMPD now believe that young Jonathan was murdered, and the prime suspect is his mother, who fled the state.

Suero was charged and remanded to the Westchester County Department of Corrections to await extradition back to North Carolina.