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Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Bruce Golding A young man who fatally stabbed a fellow student inside Mount Vernon High School was spared any prison time yesterday by a merciful judge who said it was clear the killing was provoked. But the judge’s leniency prompted anguish from the victim’s mother and outrage from […]
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 […]
The Reporter Dispatch Gannett Suburban Newspaper By Will David A Mount Vernon High School student who was fatally stabbed in October 1994 in the school’s halls was responsible for his own death because he was a member of a “posse” that attacked the student who killed him, a defense attorney told a jury yesterday. The […]
The Morning Call Allentown/Lehigh and Berks By Debbie Garlicki A Pentecostal minister from New York who participated in a riot at Dorney Park in 1992 will serve three months in the Lehigh County Prison’s work-release center. Judge James Knoll Gardner rejected defense pleas for probation for the [Defendant]. Gardner also denied requests to allow the […]
Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Will David A Mount Vernon High School student charged in the stabbing death of another student acted in self-defense, his lawyer said yesterday. Queens lawyer Todd Greenberg said [Defendant], 17, feared for his life when [Deceased], 17, was stabbed in a school hallway on Monday morning because moments before he […]
By Jacques Steinberg MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., Oct. 25 – A lawyer for the 17-year-old student charged with fatally stabbing another student at Mount Vernon High School on Monday said today that his client had acted in self-defense after being attacked by the victim and several other students in a hallway. But the Mount Vernon Police […]
January 30, 1994By Bruce Lambert The Maze — and shock over a killing there more than a year ago — refuse to go away. For years the zigzag passageway between warehouses on 74th Street near 52d Court in Maspeth has had an exciting, forbidden appeal to youngsters, who used it as a hangout, a hideaway […]
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] […]
By Blanca M. Quintanilla A Queens teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in an Elmhurst hangout known as “The Maze” was acquitted of murder charges last night. [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth, lowered his head and cried softly when the jury’s verdict was announced. His family and friends in the courtroom embraced and […]
By Janet Tarpey The fate of the Queens College student accused for stabbing 16-year-old [Deceased] to death in “the Maze,” now lies in the hands of six men and six women. Jury deliberations began last Monday night, bringing the two-month long trial nearer to an end. At press time, the jury was still out. In […]
By Blanca M. Quintanilla The attorney for a teenager charged with brutally stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in an Elmhurst teen hangout told a jury during closing arguments yesterday that his client was charged with a crime he did not commit. Todd Greenberg, a Forest Hills attorney representing [Defendant], 17, also said that the […]
By Susan Forrest, Staff Writer A Queens man, described by Nassau police as a “primary player” in the smuggling of Guyanese people into the United States, surrendered to detectives in Elmont yesterday and was charged in connection with the kidnapping of a Guyanese woman, authorities said. Taxi driver [Defendant], 44, of 111-43 127 th St., South Ozone […]
Timothy Grimes, one of three black victims in the Howard Beach racial attack, exploded in anger yesterday while testifying against five white teenagers in the case, just as he did in another trial last fall. Grimes, testifying despite concerns over his emotional stability, spat at defense attorney Todd Greenberg, muttered an obscenity and swatted a […]
By Wendy Lin Howard Beach attack victim Cedric Sandiford returned to the witness stand yesterday and admitted he had mainlined heroin and cocaine, and that he was too ashamed to admit it under oath last week. “I lied,” Sandiford told jurors in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, Queens. “I lied because I was ashamed. […]
By Wendy Lin The December, 1986, attack on three black men in Howard Beach was “a race riot in every ugly sense of the word,” a prosecutor charged yesterday in opening statements at the second trial in the case. Five Howard Beach residents are on trial in State Supreme Court in Queens on charges of […]
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