Victim Was Mother of Two Who Had Restraining Order Against Defendant
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
indicted on Murder and Manslaughter charges for fatally stabbing his former wife multiple
times on a Morrisania street soon after she left him after years of abuse.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant terrorized his ex-wife, with whom he
shared two children. Two weeks after the victim gathered the strength to leave him, the
defendant defied an order of protection, waited for her to get home and allegedly stabbed her
nearly 20 times. We will work hard to seek justice, and I urge anyone who is suffering abuse
to contact our Domestic Violence Bureau at (718) 838-6688.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Victor Garo, 50, of Townsend Ave., was
indicted on second-degree Murder, first-degree Manslaughter and fourth-degree Criminal
Possession of a Weapon. He was arraigned today before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George
Villegas and was remanded. He is due back on March 15, 2018. If convicted of the top charge,
he faces up to life in prison.
According to the investigation, on the morning of September 25, 2017, Garo allegedly
repeatedly stabbed his former wife, Adalgisa Garo, 44, while they were arguing outside a
building in the area of Home Street and Jackson Avenue.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
