Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that two men and a
woman have been indicted on Manslaughter and Gang Assault for an attack that led to the
victim’s death.
District Attorney Clark said, “This was street justice at its most brutal: the
defendants allegedly inflicted severe head trauma on the victim because he had pushed a
woman down during an argument.”
District Attorney Clark said defendants Joel Hernandez, 23, Jenny Gutierrez, 22,
and Hector Quezada, 23, all of whom reside in Manhattan, have been indicted on first degree
Manslaughter, first-degree Gang Assault, and second-degree Gang Assault.
Hernandez and Gutierrez were arraigned on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, before
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Eugene Oliver and bail was set at $100,000. Quezada was
arraigned today before Bronx Supreme Court Justice William Mogulescu and bail was set
at $50,000. They are due back in court on January 23, 2017.
District Attorney Clark said that according to the investigation, in the early
morning of October 2, 2016, outside of the Parrilla Latina restaurant at 5523 Broadway in
Kingsbridge, Donnell Soto, 36, allegedly had an argument with a group of individuals
including Quezada, Hernandez, and Gutierrez. After Soto allegedly pushed Gutierrez
down, Quezada punched Soto in the face and Hernandez and others joined, punching and
kicking Soto in the head and body. Three individuals from the group remain
unapprehended.
Soto was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with severe head trauma and was declared
brain dead on October 4, 2016.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney John Miras of the
Homicide Bureau, under the supervision of Christine Scaccia, Deputy Chief of the
Homicide Bureau and Chief of the Gangs/Major Case Bureau.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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