The vile bastard who stabbed a man to death with a cigarette after an argument in Midtown was called a “shithole” by the victim’s parents in Thursday’s sentencing court.
John Wright, 37, pleads guilty to manslaughter for stabbing Carlos Rosario, 24, to death on Dec. 6, 2022, at 42nd Street West after the victim’s co-worker asked Wright for a cigarette, leading Manhattan’s highest He was sentenced by a judge to 19 years in prison. A street near 9th Avenue.
But before Judge April Newbauer sentenced the homeless man to nearly 20 years in prison, Wright heard from Rosario’s parents. His parents scolded him for several minutes and even made veiled threats that they would be waiting for him when he got out of jail. .
“John, why did you steal my son from me? Why couldn’t you just walk away? You fucking animal!” Rosario’s mother, Melissa Davila, said in a statement to the victim: sobbed and screamed from the podium while delivering an impact statement.
Mr. Davila, wearing a black hoodie with the face of his slain son painted on it, gave a profane speech that included calling Mr. Wright a “son of a bitch” and saying his son was better than “a living hell in shackles.” declared that he was in a position of A problem that Wright has to deal with.
“You won’t laugh, you won’t laugh. With a cigarette, John,” Davila said of the time Wright was caught grinning after his arrest.
“My son didn’t even smoke!” He wanted to be everyone’s friend. ”
Rosario was standing with a co-worker outside the Midtown West store when his co-worker asked Wright’s girlfriend for a cigarette, leading to a verbal altercation between the group, prosecutors said.
Wright and two others then chased Rosario and his colleague, punching and kicking them before Wright pulled a knife from his backpack and stabbed Rosario once in the chest, according to court documents. That’s what it means.
Rosario died shortly after the stabbing, but Wright fled the scene and was arrested by police in the Bronx two weeks later.
Meanwhile, the victim’s father, Carlos Rosario, suggested that his son told Wright to “fuck you” and yelled at him, leading to the murder. prison knife.
Later, in court, he publicly threatened his son’s killer, saying he “please don’t come out” of prison because Wright is waiting for him.
“If I’m still alive when you come out, I’ll still be here waiting for you,” the father said.
Wright pleaded guilty in February to first-degree manslaughter.
