Defendant Was Convicted After 3-Week Trial
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for second-degree Murder in the death of his mother.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant got into an argument with his mother and then killed her in a particularly gruesome manner before fleeing to California. He will spend decades in prison for his heinous actions.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Michael Marte, 33, of 2173 Clinton Avenue, was sentenced January 31, 2025, to 25 years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alvin Yearwood. The defendant was found guilty of second-degree Murder after a three-week jury trial.
According to the investigation, on November 28, 2020, in the early morning hours, the defendant got into an argument with his mother, Teresita Rosario, 59, and stabbed her in the neck in their home. The defendant then strangled her with a cord and placed a plastic bag over her head. Video footage captured Marte leaving his home at 4:30 a.m. and getting into an Uber. The defendant took the cab to the John F. Kennedy International Airport and flew to California where he was apprehended and extradited to New York in June of 2021.
District Attorney Clark also thanked retired NYPD Detective Andrew Snider of the 48 Precinct and retired Detective Colin Higgins of Bronx Homicide, the Anaheim Police Department’s Aviation Unit, and Captain Gharah Pedram of the Fullerton, California Police Department for their work on the case.
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