Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Attempted Murder
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to Attempted Murder in the second degree. The defendant broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and stabbed her repeatedly in front of two children before attempting to flee the country.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant stabbed the victim multiple times, leaving her with life-altering injuries and the children traumatized. As these brave survivors still recover, there is some measure of justice for them that the defendant will be in prison for the next decade.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Wilson Rojas, 33, of 2505 Aqueduct Avenue was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Marsha Michael. The defendant pleaded guilty to Attempted Murder in the second degree on March 3, 2022.
According to the investigation, on August 27, 2018, the defendant went to the home of Florimel Lora Santos, his former girlfriend, on Allerton Avenue. The defendant broke the door open and stabbed the victim multiple times in her arms and chest with a kitchen knife in front of the victim’s two children, one of whom is the biological child of the defendant. Four NYPD Officers responded to the scene and applied a tourniquet before paramedics arrived. The multiple stabbings caused massive blood loss and the victim had to undergo multiple surgeries. She also sustained nerve damage on her left arm.
The defendant fled the scene, purchased a plane ticket and called the victim’s friends and family members from JFK Airport telling them he killed Lora Santos. Police apprehended the defendant on the tarmac.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Officers Steve Yankowski, Justin Sokol, Tanya Acevedo and Steven D’Alisera of the 49th Precinct. She also thanked NYPD Detectives William Cadena and Robinson Martinez.
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