West Babylon Man Charged With Murdering Brother

By Timothy Bolger Posted on May 12, 2013

A man was arrested for stabbing his 57-year-old brother to death in their father’s West Babylon home where all three live on Saturday evening, Suffolk County police said.

Officers responded to their Densfield Road after John Beaumont, 54, called 911 to report that he stabbed his brother, Thomas, during an argument while their father was home at 5:33 p.m.., police said. The father was not injured.

Thomas Beaumont was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, where he later died.

John Beaumont was charged with second-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty Sunday at First District Court in Central Islip.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.