Teen beaten to death with hammer by stepdad

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From NBC New York

An 18-year-old Brooklyn woman was beaten to death with a hammer following an ongoing dispute with her stepfather, police say.

The suspect, 53-year-old Jean Simon, fled the scene and led police on a dramatic chase that ended in a Queens cemetery, where police apprehended him after his car overturned.

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Police say they found Lakeshia Seymour unconscious and suffering from severe head trauma in front of a house in Canarsie Thursday afternoon.

Police investigating a homicide on 102nd Street began looking for Simon at about 2:45 p.m., and located his Mercedes traveling on Vermont Avenue off the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens.

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