Archives by Tag ' Homicide News '
Sep 11, 2001

By Robert E. KesslerSTAFF WRITERTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 A federal prosecutor began a second trial yesterday against a Queens man charged with defrauding his late wife out of her share of the couple’s $1.2 million in assets. Ali Bessaha, 65, of 43-20 40 th St. in Long Island City, is accused in U.S. District Court in Manhattan […]

Feb 6, 1996

By MONTE WILLIAMS A former Mount Vernon High school student convicted of stabbing a classmate to death inside the school in 1994 was sentenced today to five years of probation. The Westchester County District Attorney immediately protested the sentence. “When a jury convicts someone of manslaughter, of killing a 17-year-old student in high school, he […]

Jan 14, 1994

New York NewsdayBy Graham Rayman A Queens jury has acquitted the Maspeth teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a graffiti-covered warren of alleys in Elmhurst called “the Maze.” After a five-week trial, the jury Wednesday evening found [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth not guilty in the Dec. 6, 1992, slaying of [Deceased] […]

Jun 25, 1982

By Gerald McKelvey Jamaica — An Arverne man was acquitted yesterday of all homicide charges in the death of his 2-year-old son who, police said, had died of beatings, scalding and starvation. After two days of deliberation, a jury in State Supreme Court convicted [Defendant], 30, of Edgemere Houses, of endangering the welfare of a […]

Apr 15, 1982

Jamaica – One of three defendants has been acquitted in the November, 1980, murder of a 24-year-old investigator for the special state prosecutor’s office who was gunned down during a robbery. [Defendant], 22, 91-35 217th St., Queens Village, was found innocent Monday of murder charges. [Defendant’s] brother, Richard, 19, and [Co-Defendant], 16, 91-03 216th St., […]