Defendant Pleaded Guilty to First-Degree Manslaughter
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years post-release supervision for stabbing his wife to death inside a Bronx homeless shelter.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant stabbed his wife in front of their children. This vicious attack not only took the life of a 19-year-old woman, but also ripped the two children from their mother and caused trauma to staff working to provide services to the defendant at the shelter where the stabbing occurred.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Ernesto Valerio, 27, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Marsha Michael. The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree Manslaughter on October 25, 2022.
According to the investigation, on October 2, 2019, the defendant stabbed his wife, Emilsy Calix, 19, in the face, neck and chest with a kitchen knife inside their apartment in 285 East 171st Street. The couple’s two-year-old daughter and five-months-old daughter were present. Security guards in the shelter heard screams and went to the apartment. The defendant told them his wife went to the store and one of the children had fallen. As the guards went to the lobby to check the sign-out book, the defendant left the scene, leaving his two children at the shelter. The guards returned to the couple’s apartment and found the body of the victim in the bathtub. The defendant fled and was arrested that night in the Bronx.
District Attorney Clark also thanked NYPD Detective Christopher Napoli of the 44th Precinct and NYPD Detective Andre Smith of Bronx Homicide for their assistance in the case.
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