In a tragic act of domestic violence, 63-year-old Debra White, a female, was killed in her Brooklyn, New York apartment. On the evening of Monday, January 20, 2020, police responded to a call from the Sumner Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where they discovered White unconscious with a gunshot wound to her face. Emergency services transported her to Woodhull Hospital, but she was pronounced dead.
The initial investigation quickly identified a suspect close to home.
White's 43-year-old son, Jason Argentina, was taken into custody at the scene. Following the incident, he was arrested and faced charges for the murder of his mother. The charges filed against him included murder and multiple felony firearm offenses.
Debra White was remembered by some as a community minister and author. Her sudden and violent death sent shockwaves through the community, leaving friends and neighbors to mourn the loss of a woman they knew. The case proceeded through the legal system with her son as the sole suspect in her killing.
