Posted on: November 24, 2025 12:15 PM

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Home health aide indicted for attempted murder of 84 year old patient

Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a home health aide caring for an 84-year-old woman in her Massapequa home was indicted on attempted murder charges for allegedly stabbing the woman in the torso with a chef’s knife as she slept, and repeatedly telling her over the course of several minutes, “ just let go.”

Amanda Fraser, 23, of Queens, was arraigned today before Judge Colin O’Donnell on indictment charges of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree (a B violent felony); two counts of Assault in the First Degree (a B violent felony); Assault in the Second Degree (a D violent felony); two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Vulnerable Elderly Person in the First Degree (a D felony); and Endangering the Welfare of an Incompetent or Physically Disabled Person in the First Degree (an E felony). The defendant remains remanded and is due back in court on December 9, 2025. If convicted, the defendant faces up to 25 years in prison.  

“In the middle of the night as her elderly patient laid in her bed, this defendant allegedly brandished an approximately eight-inch blade and plunged it into the sleeping woman’s body,” said DA Donnelly. “For an excruciating 16 minutes as the woman moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the woman’s home health aide – held the knife firm in her body and repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb. When she did not die, the defendant left the home, and the woman she was employed to care for, bleeding and alone in her bed. Families rely on the skill and compassion of home health aides to care for ailing loved ones. This defendant allegedly only brought pain and horror to their lives.”

DA Donnelly said that, according to the investigation and video evidence recovered from the scene, on October 29, 2025, at approximately 2:08 a.m., the defendant, a home health aide caring for an 84-year-old woman in her Massapequa home, entered the woman’s bedroom and allegedly forcefully stabbed a chef’s knife into the woman’s torso.

The victim woke up, moaning in pain, and attempted to remove the knife from her body.

The defendant allegedly maintained her grip on the knife handle, and for the next 16 minutes kept the blade embedded in the victim’s body.

Fraser allegedly repeatedly told the women during this time to “just let go” and “stop fighting it.”

At approximately 2:24 a.m., Fraser pulled the knife from the woman’s torso and exited the victim’s home.

When police arrived at approximately 8:30 a.m., the victim was transported to Nassau University Medical Center for medical intervention for a puncture wound to her lung. The victim remained in the hospital for treatment of an infection stemming from the stab wound until this week.

Police also found the defendant’s Dodge Charger parked in the middle of the front lawn of the victim’s home.

Fraser was arrested in Queens on October 29, 2025, by members of the Nassau County Police Department.

From DA