About 20 people were tuned in to a Zoom conference call just after noon on Thursday when 72-year-old Dwight Powers unexpectedly slumped from his chair and disappeared off-screen.
Near where Powers had been sitting in his Amityville, N.Y., home, his 32-year-old son, Thomas Scully-Powers, suddenly appeared, standing naked, witnesses told police.
Several people on the video chat dialed 911. Officers later found Powers stabbed to death in his home, killed by his son, police say. He said witnesses recounted watching Powers fall and hearing heavy breathing over the call.
The fatal stabbing of Powers appears to be the first slaying to occur on a Zoom chat during the coronavirus pandemic.
Police did not release any information on a suspected motive in the killing, though police do not think the alleged murder was related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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