A woman was charged with manslaughter for the fatal stabbing of her 18-year-old son in their Upper West Side apartment on Friday night. Calls to 911 had been made about a stabbing and when police arrived, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that Yvonne Hines "came to the door with a rag covered in blood and there was a body on the floor." more ›

Nearly four years after a seven-alarm fire killed two firefighters at the under-dismantling Deutsche Bank site, a construction supervisor was acquitted of manslaughter charges. Salvatore DePaola cried after also being cleared of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment, "It's a happy day and a sad day, We've still got two firefighters that are deceased." more ›

Last Friday, a 5-year-old boy died after police found him unresponsive in his family's Bronx apartment. Little Jamar Johnson's death was ruled a homicide and his mother, Kim Crawford, 21, was arrested. Now, Bronx prosecutors say that she dealt the fatal blows to the child because he broke the TV while playing with the Nintendo Wii game system. more ›

The Daily News has the depressing grief-stricken words of an 11-year-old whose mother was killed in a Brooklyn drunk driving crash on the Belt Parkway early Saturday morning. And his father was the one driving the car. Tarell DuPass reportedly told his grandmother, "Who's going to take care of me?" and saying "he doesn't have anyone anymore." more ›

A 30-year-old woman was killed yesterday morning when a SUV driven by her boyfriend hit a guardrail and flipped on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. According to police, Kareem Dupass, 34, was speeding when he lost control of the Ford Explorer near the Flatbush exit around 5 a.m. Amanda Marty died at Brookdale Hospital, and Dupass was charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, DWI, reckless driving and speeding. more ›

Yesterday, jury selection began for the trial of three construction supervisors of the former Deutsche Bank building demolition, which was the site of a 2007 fire that killed two firefighters. The supervisors are charged with manslaughter, and the Post reports, "The courtroom full of 130 prospective jurors echoed with gasps when Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller announced that they were under consideration for a trial likely to last four months." more ›

A Paterson, NJ man admitted to stabbing a man in the heart over a stolen Game Boy. The Record reports, John Rosa pleaded guilty to "passion-provocation manslaughter and faces six years in state prison... He said he did not mean to kill [Davone] McCrary and that his actions were committed in the heat of the moment, but added he knew that stabbing him in the chest could result in serious bodily injury or death." For more on passion-provocation manslaughter. more ›

Yesterday, a jury found a man guilty of manslaughter, assault and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence for fatally striking a pregnant woman on a Midtown sidewalk in March 2009. Ysemny Ramos was walking on East 37th Street when she was run over by Keston Brown. Brown was acquitted of aggravated vehicular homicide and five other charges, but his lawyer said, "You always want a complete victory. My client is still in there." more ›

Former Yankees catcher Jim Leyritz was acquitted today of a DUI manslaughter charge, stemming from the 2007 car collision which left one woman dead. Leyritz was found guilty of a lesser misdemeanor DUI charge, for which he faces six months in prison. On Dec. 28, 2007, after celebrating his birthday club-hopping in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Leyritz was in a car crash with 30-year-old Ann Veitch. Blood alcohol tests showed that both Veitch and Leyritz, who denied responsibility for the crash back in 2008, were under the influence. Leyritz settled the civil suit earlier this year, and will pay $1,000 a month for 100 months to Veitch's family. more ›

Yesterday's wrong-way crash on the Long Island Expressway claimed the life of a Queens father of three. Mauricio Visoso-Ornelas was riding in Juan Cruz's mini when Cruz somehow started driving west in the eastbound HOV lane. According to Newsday, at 4:45 a.m., Cruz hit a "median at a spot where the edge of the median was uneven because of the placement of a stanchion, just west of the Sunnyside Boulevard overpass in Plainview. The passenger side of the van was torn off." Visoso-Ornelas was pronounced dead at Nassau University Medical Center. more ›

Yesterday, the funeral was held for Michael DiMaria, the Hicksville resident who was killed while two other men were fighting in a Boston bar last week. A beer glass was thrown at DiMaria's group and shattered—one of the shards punctured his jugular vein. Newsday reports, "So many people packed the pews of the Holy Family Church.. that even the overflow chairs weren't enough to accommodate the crowd." The 23-year-old had just started a job on Wall Street, and Rev. Gerald Gentleman said, "We have justified anger at this senseless act, which was not an accident but an awful choice." The man who threw the glass was charged with manslaughter and is being held on $75,000 bail and the pub has stopped using glass vessels for the time being. more ›

A 20-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter yesterday in connection to the fatal beating of a 17-month-old boy. Pedro Jones was babysitting his girlfriend's child at the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Sunday, and killed him "by striking him several times throughout his body with his closed fists and grabbing him by the neck," according to court documents. When asked why, Jones said, "I was trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl." more ›

Yesterday, two teens from the affluent NJ suburb Summit were charged with manslaughter in the fatal beating of Abelino Mazeriego. Last Saturday, Mazeriego stopped to sit on a park bench after his shift as a restaurant dishwasher and took off his shirt. A teen sat next to him, while another teen behind the bench took the shirt and put it over the 47-year-old's head. That's when the seated teen got up and starting punching Mazeriego in the face—all caught on video and circulated amongst the town's teens. more ›

William Rapetti, the crane rigger responsible for a crane at a Midtown condo site that collapsed and killed seven people in March 2008, was acquitted of all charges, including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and second-degree assault. Rapetti had declined a jury trial, so Justice Roger S. Hayes made the verdict (he did not explain it). more ›

The 18-year-old woman who, while allegedly high on Oxycontin and Xanax, took the wheel of a passenger van and fatally struck a homeowner, was indicted on 28 charges, including manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree and operating a vehicle while impaired by drugs. If convicted on all counts, Kayla Gerdes could face up to 59 years in prison. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said, "This defendant was focused on nothing else but getting high, and now an innocent woman has been violently killed." more ›

Jeffrey Conroy, the Long Island teen who was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime for fatally stabbing an Ecuadorean immigrant in 2008, was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday. His father raged at the at the sentence, running out of the courtroom and yelling, "He was f---ing 17. This is mercy for crying out loud? Jesus, f---ing, Christ! Jesus Christ!" more ›

The owner of a building site at 791 Glenmore Avenue in Brooklyn was acquitted of manslaughter for the death of an Ecuadorean day laborer who died when a wall collapsed at the site in 2008. The NY Times reports that owner William Lattarulo "hired an architect to draw plans and an engineer to do periodic inspections. But rather than relying on a professional to complete the job, he chose to do it himself, and made an incorrect measurement that led to the collapse." Lattarulo was also acquitted of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment. more ›

Yesterday, after a Brooklyn jury said it could not deliberate any further, a judge called a mistrial in the case of a man accused of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant. Keith Phoenix had pleaded not guilty to second degree murder, manslaughter, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and hate crime charges related to the death of Jose Sucuzhanay, who Phoenix admitted to fatally striking with a baseball bat while allegedly calling him racial and homophobic epithets. One juror explained, "We hated to go all this way and not have a verdict. Believe me, there was a lot of crying in that jury room, a lot of arguing. It was just one stubborn, selfish woman." more ›

Yesterday, a jury found Hakim Scott guilty of manslaughter in the 2008 fatal beating of an Ecuadorean immigrant. Prosecutors Scott and his friend Keith Phoenix attacked Jose Sucuzhanay and his brother because they thought the brothers were gay, since they were holding hands while walking down a Brooklyn street. Scott, who was acquitted of hate crime charges as well as murder, faces up to 40 years in prison. more ›

Jeffrey Conroy, the swastika-tattooed 19-year-old found guilty of manslaughter for killing an Ecuadorian immigrant, is showing remorse for his crimes, and his family says he's actually a stand up guy. According to them he has lots of Hispanic friends, listens to hip hop and is even dating a Bolivian girl. more ›

Yesterday, before a judge sentenced a 26-year-old man for killing his girlfriend, emotional words from the victim's parents, both NYU professors, brought the courtroom to tears—even the courtroom clerk wiped her eyes and the defense lawyer broke down during her statement. A prosecutor read a statement from Boitumelo McCallum's mother, Teboho Moia: "My beloved Tumi was silenced forever at a young age because she made a wrong choice about who to share her love with... You barehandedly killed my child, your hands are stained forever with her blood." more ›

Yesterday, a jury found a 19-year-old guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime for the 2008 stabbing death of an Ecuadorian immigrant. Jeffrey Conroy, who was acquitted of second-degree murder, will face a minimum of eight years in prison and a maximum of 25 years for killing Marcelo Lucero, during what Conroy's friends described as "beaner hopping," when they would target Hispanics for beatings and other attacks. Jury members said that they didn't believe Conroy's claim that another teen killed Lucero. Juror Linda Giani said, "It was extremely emotional. You have a young boy's life in your hands. You also have the family that's grieving for the loss of a son." more ›

A Long Island jury found Jeffrey Conroy, 19, guilty of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime for the 2008 stabbing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Conroy and his friend were allegedly "beaner hopping" and had been on a weeklong hate crime spree. While he was found not guilty of murder as a hate crime, Conroy, who claimed one of his friends actually killed Lucero, was found guilty of first-degree gang assault. According to Newsday (subscription required), he faces a "maximum of 25 years and a minimum of 8 years." Six of Conroy's co-defendants are still awaiting trial; four of them who testified against him pleaded guilty to gang assault while the other two pleaded not guilty. more ›

The man who strangled the daughter of two NYU professors pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday in exchange for a 25 year prison sentence. Michael Cordero apologized, "I just want to let the family know I'm really sorry... I know this is nothing to them, but I'm really sorry. If I could take it back, I would," —and also added, "I'll never do it again." more ›

Yesterday the lead detective investigating the death of Marcelo Lucero testified that then-18-year-old Jeffrey Conroy signed a statement saying he'd stabbed the Ecuadorean immigrant. Det. John McLeer questioned the teen just hours after the crime occurred in 2008, reports the Times, and is expected to be the last witness to take the stand in the Long Island hate crime case. He's the third person to claim that Conroy stated he stabbed 37-year-old Lucero, after going out with friends looking for Hispanics to terrorize. A lawyer for the boy—who's pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder as a hate crime and first-degree manslaughter—claimed he told friends the stabbing was an accident. To that the detective responded, "I believe a person's actions speak their intent."
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Two years after a collapsing crane killed two workers on the Upper East Side, the crane company’s owner—in addition to an employee and the company itself—is expected to face charges of manslaughter. When two cranes came crashing down in 2008, the Manhattan DA launched an investigation of James Lomma that turned up evidence the machinery wasn’t properly repaired after being struck by lightning. "In answer to the question about how I feel about Jimmy Lomma being taken away in handcuffs, I say it's a start and about time,” said one of the workers' fathers. “It will never bring my son back...but it might finally be the beginning of paying real attention to the safety of workers who risk their lives to feed their families." more ›

Yesterday when 20-year-old Caleb Lacey was convicted of setting a fire that killed a mother and three children, he tried to flee from the premises and was pushed to the ground by court officers, who yelled for quiet in the courtroom. The former-volunteer fireman was found guilty on four counts of murder while committing arson, as well as manslaughter and reckless endangerment. more ›

One of Borough Park's Yeshiva school buses struck and killed a young Orthodox boy today, after he slipped and fell on an icy patch of pavement. Different sources have reported his age to be either 4 or 7, but according to one witness he was tiny. "The child was so small," said Rocco Botta, who who was working on a construction site nearby. "The person who hit him may have thought it was snow and just kept going." more ›

A 19-year-old woman stabbed her 17-year-old friend in the heart with a steak knife in a Queens apartment building yesterday. Mary Herron is suspected of killing Starsheema Lynn after an argument over "some type of property," police sources told the Times. Cops arrived at Herron's building near the corner of 135th Street and 82nd Avenue at around 12:40 pm and found the victim in a fourth floor hallway with a single wound to her chest. Lynn was rushed to Queens General Hospital, where she died. According to the Post, Herron has been charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. This fatal stabbing comes just over a week after another Queens teenager fatally stabbed a man she claimed had forced himself upon her, though sources say the 16-year-old was the aggressor. more ›

Surveillance video from a camera outside the restaurant where a 16-year-old girl stabbed and killed a man on Christmas Eve refutes her claim of self-defense, the Queens DA says. Cyan Brown pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree manslaughter yesterday, and her lawyer maintains that the victim, 29-year-old Thomas Winston, threatened Brown, dumped beer on her and seemed as if he was going to hit her with the beer bottle outside a chicken restaurant near the 21st Street-Queensbridge F station in Long Island City. more ›