Police: Johnson City Resident Died After Binghamton Attack

Binghamton police have released the name of a Johnson City resident who died shortly after being stabbed inside a North Side building.

Detectives announced Monday evening that the vicim was 31-year-old Malek J. Belcher, who also was known as Aleanna Belcher.

Police previously said a suspect was taken into custody shortly after the attack.

Officers were sent to 29 Virgil Street just after midnight Friday in response to a 911 call reporting someone "had been stabbed inside the housing facility."

Officers found Belcher had sustained "a significant stab wound to the abdomen" in a common stairwell inside the two-story building.

Belcher, who was transported to Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, died around 2:30 a.m. Friday.

Police said the suspect in the stabbing is 54-year-old Roy A. Peterson of Binghamton. He was found in an apartment in the building and taken into custody.

Peterson has been charged with second-degree murder. He was arraigned in Binghamton City Court and sent to Broome County Jail.

Investigators have released no additional information about the circumstances surrounding the fatal stabbing.

The Family Enrichment Network's Housing Connections complex at 29 Virgil Street in Binghamton. (Image: Google)

The building where the fatal stabbing occurred is owned by Family Enrichment Network of Johnson City.

According to the agency's website, its "Housing Connections" program at the Binghamton site provides 19 "supportive housing units." The building at Virgil and Liberty streets opened about five years ago.

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