The Mount Vernon man charged with gunning down his niece over a property dispute once did prison time for the drive-by murder of former NFL star Ray Rice’s father.
Michael Foster, 58, allegedly shot and killed his niece, 39-year-old Julia Anderson, outside her Bronx job on Monday over a bitter squabble over a family home in Westchester County, law enforcement sources have said.
It wasn’t Foster’s first brush with the law.
State corrections records show that he was one of four people charged in the 1988 drive-by shooting death of Calvin Reed, the father of the former Baltimore Ravens running back.
Rice, 39, a native of New Rochelle, played for the 2013 Super Bowl champion Ravens, but is best remembered for the caught-on-video slugging his then-girlfriend in an Atlantic City casino elevator the following year – derailing his football career. He later married the woman, Janay Palmer, but the shocking footage never faded.
Rice was still in diapers when Reed was killed — with Foster later hit with a sentence of 4 to 20 years in state prison on a first-degree manslaughter conviction.
Foster was denied parole three times before he was released in 1999, state records show.
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Property records show that Foster and his niece were embroiled into a legal dispute over a home at 18 Bell Avenue in Mount Vernon when he allegedly shot her several times in the stomach as she was about to step into her Jeep in Wakefield.
He was arraigned in Bronx court on Thursday.
— Additional reporting by Peter Senzamici
