Sentenced: Barry Wells Pushed His Wife Of 9 Months Down A Flight Of Stairs

[Sugar Cookie]

A crying Brooklyn toddler steered police to the body of her murdered mother — and her father was arrested for the killing, sources told the Daily News.

Tonie Wells, 22, was found dead Wednesday at the bottom of the basement stairs inside the three-story Crown Heights brownstone about 10 a.m. after police received a 911 call, cops said.

Police sources say her husband of just nine months, Barry Wells, shoved her down the stairs before fleeing the home — leaving their daughter with the dead body.

“It was him,” the dead woman’s sister told the Daily News. “It wasn’t an accident. It was definitely him.”

It was unclear how long Tonie Wells’ body was inside the house alone with the 2-year-old girl, whose cries led a neighbor to call the cops.

NYPD brass are looking into the possibility that officers did not check on Wells after being alerted to the child’s cries.

“We are actively investigating the steps that were taken during the wellness check,” said a high-ranking NYPD source. “We want to know all the steps they made in this incident.”

When cops did go inside the home on Sterling Place near Albany Ave. they found bruises on the dead woman’s neck.

Barry Wells’ Facebook page included a post advising other men to treat the mothers of their kids with respect.

“Especially if you have a daughter,” he wrote in October 2016. “She gonna grow up believing it’s okay to be treated that way!”

A friend of the victim added a response to his post Wednesday after Tonie Wells was found dead.

“Ur going to hell, trust that,” the woman wrote.

Wells was recently pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage after a domestic quarrel, a cousin told the Daily News. A police source said Wells was eight months pregnant when she lost her baby last month.

Neighbors heard the victim’s daughter crying Wednesday morning and realized they hadn’t seen the young mom in some time before calling the cops.

“It’s just sad,” said Trevor Lyons, who has lived nearby for over 30 years. “It’s a shame this time of the year. I feel sorry for the baby.”

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[FrayedKnot]

Jesus God, she looks like my daughter.

 

[Satanica]

Wells was recently pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage after a domestic quarrel, a cousin told the Daily News. A police source said Wells was eight months pregnant when she lost her baby last month.

I would've killed him after that. Next time he went to sleep, he wouldn't have woken up.

 

[Dead Stephanie]

Jesus God, she looks like my daughter.

She’s gorgeous, too bad she had to endure this mess. That poor baby being left with her dead mother, what kind of shit is that

 

[lithiumgirl]

Barry Wells, shoved her down the stairs before fleeing the home — leaving their daughter with the dead body.

What a piece of shit ... poor little baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The NYPD says it has suspended two officers after questions arose about how they responded to check on a woman who was later found dead.

The body of 22-year-old Tonie Wells was found at the base of a stairwell in her Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment Wednesday. Police said she had bruising on her neck and other signs of trauma.

She was apparently strangled and thrown down he stairs, law enforcement sources said.

Her 2-year-old daughter was found in the home unharmed. The toddler's crying and screaming led a neighbor to call 911.

Wells' husband is in police custody and is being questioned. The NYPD worked with New Rochelle police to take Barry Wells into custody. He was initially taken to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and is now being held at the 77th Precinct.

Sources told PIX11 that Wells and her husband had a history of domestic violence and that police were called to the home at least once before.

Her husband has one prior arrest for allegedly assaulting Wells in September, police said. He was out on $5,000 bail.

An autopsy will determine the cause of death.

The NYPD said the incident was under review. The suspended officers reported no sign of distress when they checked on the woman after the initial call at 8:40 a.m. Different officers found the body after another call was placed around 10 a.m.

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[Keepalowprofile]

What a fucked up mess.

I wonder if she was already dead when he tossed her down the stairs.
Or could she have been saved if the first officers had done their job.

 

[FrayedKnot]

Jesus God, she looks like my daughter.

Sorry, @Keepalowprofile .

She does look like my daughter.

Don't know why the "crap".

 

[notchback]

Sorry, @Keepalowprofile .

She does look like my daughter.

Don't know why the "crap".

Pics of your daughter???

 

[FrayedKnot]

Pics of your daughter???

The deceased wife looks shockingly like my own daughter. If you sub blue eyes for brown.

That picture took my breath away.

 

[notchback]

The deceased wife looks shockingly like my own daughter. If you sub blue eyes for brown.

That picture took my breath away.

Definitely beautiful. Too many pretty women getting killed. Keep your daughter locked up so no one can get to her.

 

[FrayedKnot]

Definitely beautiful. Too many pretty women getting killed. Keep your daughter locked up so no one can get to her.

Cannot do that, sadly. She is becoming her own person. Of which I am immensely proud.

I can only hope she will make good choices because I raised her that way.

That said, sometimes it isn't enough.

 

[Forensicwx]

She is beautiful, no doubt about that.

However that doesn’t make her any more of a victim than any other woman might be, who maybe isn’t AS physically attractive, but suffered the same fate.

I know we tend to say “oh what a beautiful girl, too bad he blah blah..”

Or even vice versa for male victims.

If she had a mustache and a spiked mohawk, should we not feel just as bad for her?

Idk. The too many pretty women getting killed thing (not aimed directly at you, notch) tends to be a theme with the public in general.

Same thing with missing persons.

 

[FrayedKnot]

She is beautiful, no doubt about that.

However that doesn’t make her any more of a victim than any other woman might be, who maybe isn’t AS physically attractive, but suffered the same fate.

I know we tend to say “oh what a beautiful girl, too bad he blah blah..”

Or even vice versa for male victims.

If she had a mustache and a spiked mohawk, should we not feel just as bad for her?

Idk. The too many pretty women getting killed thing (not aimed directly at you, notch) tends to be a theme with the public in general.

Same thing with missing persons.

Um, Fo?

This young mother got shoved down stairs to her death.

When evil shit happens, we try to make sense of it best we can.

In my case, I was struck by how much the victim resembles my daughter. Notch was being polite in saying that, yes, the victim was lovely.

In no way do I think she is more of a victim because she resembles my kid. I was only seeking to make a personal connection after that photo shook me so.

I also say the same of children who are victims...”what a gorgeous angel; I would have taken him”, etc.

Does not mean I think less attractive children deserve abuse.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Sorry, @Keepalowprofile .

She does look like my daughter.

Don't know why the "crap".

I fixed that 3 times last night. I don't know why it was there again.

 

[Sejanus]

Another big tough guy who murders and runs away like the coward he truly is.

 

[CandyCathy]

And she lost her baby last month because of a domestic incident.. sick.

 

[ChaosKitty]

She’s gorgeous, too bad she had to endure this mess. That poor baby being left with her dead mother, what kind of shit is that

that was my first thought, absolutely beautiful, and so sad she was with such a loser and ugly to boot

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A doe-eyed 3-year-old who lost both her mom and dad to violence is now at the center of a custody feud between grieving grandmothers — even as the somber little girl could inherit a windfall from lawsuits filed by her fractious family.

“That’s an angel right there. A blessed angel,” paternal grandmother Tamara Etheridge, 49, told the Daily News on Thursday, nodding at the little girl playing silently with a balloon and a toy squirt gun in the Harlem apartment where she lived with her dad, Randy McNair, 25, and Etheridge.

On June 15, a gunman fatally shot McNair, 26, in Harlem. Charlie’s mom, Tonie Wells, died Dec. 28, 2017, after her husband, Barry, tossed her down a flight of stairs in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, according to police.

“She was going (to counseling) for her mother, and now she’s going for both her parents," Etheridge told The News.

McNair was battling for custody of his baby girl with Charlie’s maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Rivera, before he died.

And he also had filed a $30 million lawsuit against the city describing himself as the “proposed administrator” of Tonie Wells’ estate. The ongoing suit alleges police should have known Barry Wells was dangerous because his wife filed a harassment complaint against him in the spring of 2017, and that cops arrested Wells for attacking her Sept. 21, 2017, three months before he flung her to her death.

Wells is currently at Rikers Island, waiting for his trial to start July 16.

“The other grandmother wants her,” Etheridge told The News. “We’re not worried about the money. That money is nothing to me. That money is for college. For whatever Charlie wants to do. She has her whole life ahead of her."

Rivera, who lives in Midtown Manhattan, conceded, “We are the middle of an ugly custody battle."

“It’s beyond the kid,” she said, adding that McNair’s death is “painful for both families.” She declined to elaborate on the divisions between the clans, or the custody fight that she began after her daughter was killed.

In court papers filed after her daughter died, Rivera painted McNair as a deadbeat dad and said he was using Charlie as a “pawn” to get his hands on the possible payout from the lawsuits against the city.

Charlie, in the middle of the tug-of-love, now navigates a little girl’s world that’s been tossed upside down.

McNair’s killer remains at large, although police on Wednesday released a photo of a possible suspect.

“(This) is just compounding the tragedy of that poor child,” said lawyer Marvin Fuhrman, who was representing McNair in a custody battle. “Now both the parents have been murdered.”

The lawyer said McNair likely would have prevailed in his custody battle if he had lived.


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She was their Queen Charlie. A doe-eyed 3-year-old who lost both her mom and dad to violence is now at the center of a custody feud between grieving grandmothers — even as the somber little girl could inherit a windfall from lawsuits…

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[Keepalowprofile]

So the guy that pushed the mom down the stairs isn't the little girls dad.
Then why were they in s custody battle?

This is all super confusing.
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This also said "their daughter"

. http://www.news12.com/story/3735318...n-curse-yell-during-husbands-court-appearance

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Family and friends of a young woman murdered by her estranged husband in 2017 expressed shock and outrage exclusively to Eyewitness News as the woman's husband was released after serving seven years in jail.

"This is like my daughter just died again," Elizabeth Rivera said of her daughter, Tonie Wells.

Barry Wells was convicted of strangling Tonie Wells, 22, and leaving her body in the basement stairwell of his home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in December 2017. Rivera said her daughter was newly pregnant at the time of her murder.

Police had arrested Barry Wells three months prior for attacking Tonie Wells, but he was released from jail. Tonie Wells had an order of protection against him at the time of her death.

Shortly after the December 2017 attack, police took Barry Wells into custody and sent him to Rikers Island.

On Monday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Dena Douglas sentenced Wells to time served, meaning Wells was set free.

Barry Wells's trial was held in January - seven years after his wife's murder. Sources tell Eyewitness News the delay was caused by Wells changing attorneys several times and by COVID.

In February, a jury convicted Wells of criminally negligent homicide. Prosecutors had originally charged him with second-degree murder, but during the trial Douglas allowed the jury to consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. Prosecutors tried to argue no evidence existed for the lesser charge, but Douglas decided it was warranted.

During Wells' sentencing, prosecutors asked Douglas to sentence him to up to 15 years, but she declined. Douglas also denied prosecutors' request to grant an order of protection against Barry Wells for Tonie Wells' daughter who was a toddler at the time of her mother's murder and was present during the attack. Barry Wells is not the biological father of the child.

Barry Wells did not speak during the sentencing.

Family of woman murdered by husband in 2017 furious over his release from jail

Family and friends of a young woman murdered by her estranged husband in 2017 expressed shock and outrage as the woman's husband was released after serving seven years in jail.

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