SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE – State Police have identified the woman shot and killed in her South Blooming Grove home late Tuesday afternoon, December 23 as 45-year-old Tanzanica Dickerson.
Here live-in boyfriend, Joseph Pennyfeather III, 44, has been charged with murder.
Dickerson was found in their home suffering from a gunshot wound and apparent trauma.
She was transported by ambulance to Garnet Health Medical Center where she later died.
Police said the preliminary investigation determined the couple were involved in a verbal argument that turned physical.
An autopsy conducted by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be a gunshot wound and evidence of blunt force trauma.
In addition to a murder charge, Pennyfeather was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
He was remanded to the county jail without bail pending a future court appearance.
The investigation is continuing and anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the State Police at 845-344-5300.
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