(7:07 p.m.) A 35-year-old home health care worker in Brooklyn was arrested on Thursday on charges she fatally beat with her fists or an object the 67-year-old woman she was supposed to be caring for, a law enforcement official told the New York Times.

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(3:25pm) A home home health aide has been charged with the murder of the 67-year-old Sunset Park woman in her care.

Aide Yamilette Hidalgo had on ongoing dispute with patient Maria Torres, neighbors told WABC.

Hidalgo, 33, called police at about 11am on March 24 to report she had found her patient dead on the bathroom floor in Torres’ apartment at 558 50th St. Hidalgo told officers a man had burst through the door and knocked her unconscious. Hidalgo said she found Torres after coming to. But police charged Hidalgo with the murder after investigation “revealed that Mrs. Hidalgo’s story was…fabricated,” Deputy Inspector Jesus Raul Pintos wrote in an email.

Police told WABC the frail Torres fell in the course of the dispute Wednesday morning and subsequently died.

Hidalgo confessed yesterday evening, according to police.

The man murdered in the early hours of March 10 in Sunset Park has been identified as Hang Yu Chen of 55th Street. He was found shot in the chest at about 4 a.m. on 53rd Street, WABC reported. “We’re pretty much where we were the day of,” said Deputy Inspector Jesus Raul Pintos of the 72nd Precinct, but the investigation is ongoing.

The NYPD Comp Stat numbers for the 72nd Precinct released today show overall crime on par with 2009’s low numbers, though the categories have shifted.

The Precinct counted 23 crimes between January 18th and 24th, including one rape and six burglaries. Rape numbers have been creeping up in the neighborhood–two have been recorded in the first 27 days of 2010, and that’s two more than this time last year.

Inspector Jesus Raul Pintos said at a Community Council meeting last year that rape victims who have come to the precinct have by and large have known their assailants.

Burglaries have risen as well, up to 19 thus far, a 90 percent increase from twelve months ago. Grant larceny and car thefts, however, have dropped. Overall, the Precinct has 67 crimes on the books this year, the exact number recorded in January 2009.

Check out the stats for yourself here.

A man shot three times outside a local barber shop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Thanksgiving night died Sunday, police said.

Police found 28-year-old Samuel Oliveri in critical condition with three gunshot wounds to the neck and thigh on November 26 at about 6pm. An ambulance rushed the victim to Lutheran Medical Center. He passed away as a result of his injuries at 7:30pm on November 28, police said.

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The stabbing that took place last Sunday, Oct. 4, does not appear to have been gang related. There have been several misunderstandings and errors on this incident, including my own, here and here. The Post and Village Voice have also reported on Sunset Park’s most recent homicide. The following is the version offered by the 72nd Precinct at the Community Council meeting of October 12th:

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