A Bronx man with a history of violence has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend to death at a Bronx mental health facility, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced.
Waheed Foster, 44, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and third-degree assault and was sentenced on Dec. 19 by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Audrey Stone. His prison term will run consecutively to a 22-year sentence he is already serving for the brutal assault on a mother of five at a Queens subway station in September 2022.
According to authorities investigating the strangulation case, Foster brought his girlfriend, Jessica Miller, 41, to his residence at a Bronx mental health facility on Aug. 4, 2022. The couple signed in at the front desk before proceeding to his room.
That evening, Foster left the facility and did not return. On Aug. 6, 2022, staff conducted a wellness check in his room, where they discovered Miller’s lifeless body in his bed. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later determined the cause of death, leading to Foster’s indictment in November 2022.
Miller’s death came one month prior to the brutal assault of Elizabeth Gomes at the Howard Beach subway station, an incident caught on camera that shocked the city. Foster was seen throwing Gomes into the wall before repeatedly punching and kicking her on the ground.
Foster has a long record of violence; he killed his grandmother when he was 14 years old.
District Attorney Clark condemned the Bronx crime, stating, “The defendant strangled the victim in his room and fled, leaving her lifeless body in his bed for days until staff found her during a wellness check.”
