Monday afternoon the police found the brutally sliced up body of 58-year-old ABC studios employee Sharon Lee-Hill in the Queens apartment she shared with her younger sister. Cops have since taken Hill's sister into custody in the case, but neighbors are seething because officers never responded to a 911 call Sunday night reporting a noisy argument in the sister's apartment.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday the department was investigating the allegations that police were slow to respond to the victim's home, but the gist of it seems that there was simply a whole lot of Mother's Day mayhem going on in Queens that night.
Two officers were in fact on their way to Hill's apartment when they were sidetracked by a street fight nearby between two women, one described as being "crazed," which took priority. After breaking up that assault the cops had yet another assault to deal with and, when asked about the call to Hill's home by the 911 operator, they erroneously and tragically reported that the call was unfounded.
Making the whole thing even more bizarre, the crazed woman in the assault that distracted the police in the first place turned out to be Hill's 41-year-old younger sister (who after the fight was hospitalized as disturbed). The same sister now being held in regards to the murder. Hill's mutilated body—her ears and nose were reportedly sliced off—was only found the next day when a different one of her sisters became worried that Sharon wasn't answering her phone.
