BREAKTHROUGH: Suspect in deacon’s 2017 killing arrested

Some may remember this shocking story from last November, about a deacon stabbed to death in a halfway house on Long Island.

Now, a breakthrough: 

The fugitive accused of killing a Long Island deacon last year has been arrested and ordered held without bail.

Nassau police say the suspect, 47-year-old Andre Patton, was hiding out in Tennessee and used an alias. He is accused of stabbing 70-year-old Catholic Deacon Patrick Logdson with a kitchen knife multiple times back in November.

Logsdon was the program manager of Anthony House, a group home in Roosevelt where Patton had been living at the time of the slaying. The home is operated by St. Vincent dePaul of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.

Police tell News 12 that Patton was in the program because he had just been released from prison on an assault charge, and had only been living in the house with the victim for about a week before the killing.

Detectives say the stabbing happened after a heated argument over Patton’s lack of progress in the rehabilitation program.

After the fatal stabbing, investigators say Patton took off running, and later he allegedly stole a van that was operated by the NICE bus system. Police say that vehicle was ditched in Queens — and Patton disappeared.

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