Boyfriend of murdered Queens mother wanted in triple slaying

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Boyfriend of murdered Queens mother wanted in triple slaying

A suspect has been identified in last week’s triple slaying of a Queens family — and police said the wanted man is the estranged boyfriend of the murdered mother.

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Boyfriend of murdered Queens mother wanted in triple slaying​

By
Jesse O’Neill and

Joe Marino


June 29, 2022 11:53pm
Updated

Travis Blake is was identified as the suspect in the triple murder of a family in Queens. DCPI

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A suspect has been identified in last week’s triple slaying of a Queens family — and police said the wanted man is the estranged boyfriend of the murdered mother.
The NYPD on Wednesday released a photo of Travis Blake, 29, and asked for the public’s help in locating the suspected killer.
Blake had been dating 55-year-old Darlene Barnett and had stopped at her South Jamaica home to “pick up his property,” victim Vashawnna Malcolm told her brother over the phone last Wednesday, police and sources said.
Barnett, her son Dervon Brightly, 36, and Malcom were found dead in their house two days later, their bodies already decomposing in the summer heat, according to police.
Malcolm, 22, was Barnett’s niece and had been visiting from the nation of Jamaica, sources said.
She was found in a second floor bedroom bound and gagged with tape and had been stabbed multiple stab times, according to sources.
Her aunt and cousin’s bodies were found in the 155th Street house’s locked basement riddled with stab wounds and trauma.

 

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Boyfriend of murdered Queens mom arrested in connection to triple slaying

Travis Blake was picked up by members of the Regional Fugitive Task Force on Thursday in relation to the gruesome triple slaying.

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Boyfriend of murdered Queens mom arrested in connection to triple slaying​

By
Allie Griffin


July 1, 2022 2:13am
Updated

Travis Blake was arrested on Thursday in connection to the triple homicide. DCPI

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The estranged boyfriend of a Queens mom who was murdered alongside her son and niece was arrested by officers in Maine Thursday in connection to the triple slaying, police said.
Travis Blake, 29, was picked up by members of the Regional Fugitive Task Force one day after he was named a suspect in the gruesome killings of 55-year-old Karlene Barnett, whom he had been dating, her son Dervon Brightly, 36, and Barnett’s 22-year-old niece, Vashawnna Malcolm.
The three relatives were found dead inside Barnett’s South Jamaica home on June 24, police said.
Two days before authorities discovered the grisly scene, Blake had stopped by Barnett’s house to grab his belongings, sources said.
Malcolm, who had been visiting from the nation of Jamaica, was found gagged and bound with multiple stab wounds in a second-floor bedroom, according to police sources.
The bodies of Barnett and Brightly were found in the basement. Each suffered trauma and stab wounds, police said.
The three had reportedly been dead for days before their bodies — already decomposing in the summer heat — were discovered.
Friends and neighbors were shocked to learn of the triple homicide.
“All of us are trying to fathom how this animal took out three people,” Danielle Richardson, a friend of Brightly, told the Post Sunday.