Ronald Jones, 55, of Essex, Md., leaves Stapleton Criminal Court back in March after he was arraigned for the murder of Robert Jenkins.Ronald Jones, 55, suffered a fatal heart attack on Rikers Island, where he was being held awaiting trial for the killing of Robert Jenkins, according to documents filed in state Supreme Court, St. George.
Jones’ death certificate lists his cause of death as “hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with myocardial infarcts,” according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
Jones died Aug. 16, recent court filings stated.
Prosecutors allege Jones fatally beat and choked Jenkins, 68, a well-liked fixture in his community, on Feb. 26, inside the victim’s Wayne Street home.
Jones, who lived in Essex, Md., told police he was in town visiting his hospitalized mother, a Staten Islander.
A law enforcement source said Jones and Jenkins, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, had been friends for years, although several of the victim’s family members told the Advance they didn’t know the suspect.
The victim, Robert Jenkins of West Brighton, was choked.When he returned to his father’s home around midnight, the elder Jenkins was lifeless and bloody on the floor, with Jones passed out next to him, his arm around the body, the source said.
Jenkins was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, where he was pronounced dead.
Jones admitted to beating Jenkins, knocking him unconscious, then sitting atop him and continuing to beat him, prosecutors said at the suspect’s arraignment in Stapleton Criminal Court, two days after the killing.
They did not provide a motive.
Jones was charged with second-degree murder and other crimes.
The case is now closed due to his death, prosecutors said.
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