Feud over deed to Mount Vernon home led to uncle killing niece, sources say

A bitter family feud over ownership of a Mount Vernon home led to a woman's murder, sources tell CBS News New York.

Michael Foster, 58, is accused of shooting his niece Julia Anderson, 39, just before midnight Monday at Murdock and Nereid avenues in the Bronx, police say.

Julia Anderson killed

According to police, Anderson had just left her job as an aide at a group home and walked to her distinctive SUV, which is black with pink trim, when the gunman approached her and shot her before running off.

Officers responded to a 911 call and found Anderson suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Anderson and Foster lived in the same house, which was shared by multiple generations of one family.

Sources say Foster made incriminating admissions when the NYPD questioned him at the home Tuesday night.

Foster was arrested Wednesday evening in the Bronx and charged with murder, manslaughter and 10 counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

Home ownership dispute

Court records show, last year, Foster accused Anderson of forging a deed to their shared home. She was arrested, but charges were quickly dropped.

Anderson sued, claiming investigators relied on "unvetted statements of a known felon with a violent history and a personal vendetta."

That was a reference to Foster, who served time for the 1988 fatal shooting of Calvin Reed, the father of former NFL star running back Ray Rice, in Mount Vernon.

The victim's friends are in shock.

"Smart, intelligent, hardworking," one friend said. "Smile on her face all the time."
  
Thursday afternoon, Foster made a brief court appearance. The judge remanded him and sent him to jail without setting bail.