Roseberline Philippe, White Plains, NY woman beaten to death by ex boyfriend and father of her young child, Justin Bartley at Elmsford motel.
She wanted out… but he wouldn’t let her leave… A Westchester County, NY man is facing murder charges for allegedly beating to death his ex girlfriend inside a local motel room in White Plains before fleeing with the couple’s 2 year old son.
Justin Bartley, 32, was arrested hours after cleaning staff found the battered body of Roseberline Philippe in Room 230 at the Days Inn motel in Elmsford, Sunday, lohud.com reported.
At the time of his arrest, Bartley had an open drunk driving and weapons possession case from May pending in White Plains — with the ex boyfriend on probation for a gun conviction in Rockland County.
White Plains woman wanted out … but he wouldn’t let go
‘She was so sweet and always laughing even if she was dealing with stuff,’ the slain woman’s sister, Yvena Philippe, told lohud Tuesday. ‘She was a giver and he took advantage of her in that way.’
She said Bartley and her sister — an office assistant at White Plains Hospital — met at Port Chester High School, and sparked up a romance years later.
But she said her sister grew to fear Bartley after they had their son.
Just one day prior to the slaying, Barton according to the site turned up at the family White Plains home where the victim lived with her parents and was told to leave.
On Sunday, police said Bartley and Roseberline were at the hotel when he allegedly beat her for hours, then left her body and fled to take their son to his family in the Bronx.
Surveillance footage from the motel allegedly caught the killer fleeing with the boy, and Bartley was arrested later in the day by a task force of village and county cops and the FBI, lohud said.
Not immediately clear is how or why Roseberline ended up at the motel with her ex boyfriend and their son?
‘We thought she was coming home,’ Yvena Philippe said. ‘But I think he had a plan for her not to come home.’
Following his arrest the former boyfriend was charged with first degree murder and child endangerment and remains held without bail.
