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Jocelyn Dahta (Courtesy of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office)EAST ORANGE-- Authorities have arrested a 32-year-old Orange woman for the killing of an elderly man found dead at his home earlier this month, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Jocelyn Dahta was brought into police custody Tuesday, said Essex County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Katherine Carter. She now stands charged with one count of homicide for the killing of Henry Boyd, Carter said.
Boyd, 90, was found unresponsive inside his South Harrison Street apartment by a family member on February 9. Medical personnel later pronounced him dead at the scene.
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A preliminary investigation by the prosecutor's office Homicide Task Force indicates that Dahta was known to the victim, Carter said. The exact nature of their relationship remains unclear.
Autopsy results indicate that Boyd died of compression of the throat and a fracture of the larynx, Carter said.
Additional details of the killing, including a possible motive for the killing, were not immediately made available.
Dahta is currently being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility on $750,000 bail.
The investigation into Boyd's killing is ongoing, Carter said.
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