NEW YORK – A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to decades behind bars for assaulting a 61-year-old woman with a rock as she was sweeping a sidewalk in Queens the day after Thanksgiving 2021, an assault that cost her her life. violent attack.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday that Elisaul Perez was sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years after release for attacking GuiYing Ma.
Perez, 33, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter.
According to the allegations, at around 8 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2021, Ma was sweeping the sidewalk and street in the 38th Avenue area near 97th Street. It was then that Perez picked up a large rock and hit Ma di lei on her head, once again hitting her on the head a second time after she fell to the ground. The gruesome attack was caught on security video.
But she was later taken to a local hospital where she underwent emergency surgery for severe head trauma and brain injuries. However, after a long hospitalization of three months, she Ma lei died of her injuries.
“Although today’s sentence cannot compensate for the heartbreaking and senseless loss of a loved one, I hope it brings some comfort to Ms. Ma’s family. The lengthy sentence will hold the defendant responsible for an unprovoked attack that robbed a community of a loved one member,” Katz said in a statement.
