Derry Township police arrest a man accused of stabbing an elderly woman to death on June 10 . Dajuan Anthony Porter, 29, is facing numerous charges including murder of the first degree, burglary and arson.
Joyce Roth, 87, of Allentown, was visiting relatives in Derry Township when she was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife during the early morning hours on June 10. It happened at her son’s home along the 900 block of Bryon Road.
Roth was taken to Penn State Hershey Medical Center where she later died.
Numerous items belonging to Roth and the people she was staying with were reported missing from the home. Police initially thought her death was the result of a burglary.
Porter was charged in August 2012 with indecent assault on unconscious persons after he performed sex acts on three men while they slept.