| Harlem Park Murder Trial
Features Gardener Voyeur as
Migrant Shelter Killing Trial
Looms
by
Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 31 – A murder three
summers ago in Harlem's
Riverbank State Park is the
subject of a trial in 111
Centre Street this week.
On Monday,
witnesses included a Park
Police officer who described
finding the victim's body
after hearing shots, and
administering CPR.
On cross, the
defense noted his lack of
memory on what he did with the
victim's shirt (and knife),
and his having left the shell
casing at the scene.
Next up
was the emergency room doctor
from Mt. Sinai Morningside,
who painstakingly gave the
spelling of her Dutch college
upon request. She testified
that the victim had no pulse
or heartbeat and at 7:16 she
pronounced him dead. On cross,
the defense delved deeper into
the defendant's clothing until
objections were
sustained.
A
gardener, a Harlem transplant,
took the stand. She said she
heard shots then saw a man
with a "shiny object." For
some reason she took photos of
the victim's body. But she
couldn't, or didn't, identify
anyone in the photo array.
From Inner City Press live
tweets:
Defense lawyer:
You said the individuals was
slender and lean and with a
pony tail? Gardener: I
don't remember the pony
tail. Defense lawyer:
You didn't see him shoot
anybody, right, only holding
this silver object?
Gardener:
Correct
Next witness is a
paramedic at NY Presbyterian
Hospital ADA: Where were you
trained? Witness: SUNY
Westchester, as EMT -
Paramedic. ADA: What was
the call on July 1, 2023?
Paramedic:
Gunshot wound. We arrived 6:52
pm. We saw State Park Police
providing CPR Paramedic:
He was not breathing. There
was not a heart rate. He was a
young man, Hispanic. No shocks
were given - there was no
muscular activity in the
heart. Flat line.
ADA: You provided
bandages? Paramedic:
Yes. Four gunshot wounds. We
went to Mount
Sinai
Thus the trial day
ended. On the other side of
the seventh floor, in Justice
Rachel S. Pauley's youth part,
a defendant born in 2009 and
charged with strangulation had
her case transferred across
Collect Pond Park to the
Family Court. Still, she was
in handcuffs in the hallway
despite being listed as
RoR.
Five
stories up, Justice Hanshaft
spent the day working to pick
a jury for the murder of
Dafren Canizalez in a migrant
shelter on Randall's Island.
He told prospective jurors not
to visit the scene of the
crime, noting that "the subway
doesn't go there." But there
is a walkway over the Harlem
River...
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