MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Queens home health aide has been indicted on attempted murder and assault charges after allegedly stabbing an 84-year-old woman she was hired to care for in the woman’s Massapequa home, Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced.
According to prosecutors, Amanda Fraser, 23, was captured on video entering the victim’s bedroom around 2:08 a.m. on October 29, 2025, and allegedly plunging an eight-inch chef’s knife into the sleeping woman’s torso. Investigators say Fraser then held the blade in place for 16 minutes, repeatedly telling the victim to “just let go” as the woman moaned in pain and tried to remove the weapon.
Fraser allegedly maintained her grip on the knife throughout the attack, only pulling it from the victim’s body around 2:24 a.m. before leaving the home. Prosecutors said the victim remained bleeding in her bed until police arrived nearly six hours later. She was taken to Nassau University Medical Center and treated for a punctured lung and an infection stemming from the stab wound.
Officers also located Fraser’s Dodge Charger parked in the middle of the victim’s front lawn. She was later arrested in Queens by Nassau County Police.
Fraser was arraigned before Judge Colin O’Donnell on charges including Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, multiple counts of Assault, and Endangering the Welfare of a Vulnerable Elderly Person. She remains remanded and is due back in court on December 9, 2025. If convicted, she faces up to 25 years in prison.
DA Donnelly condemned the alleged attack, noting that families rely on home health aides for compassion and care, not violence.
The case is being handled by Deputy Bureau Chief Veronica Guariglia of the Homicide Bureau. Fraser is represented by attorney Taryn Schechter.
The charges are accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
