Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a man has been sentenced
to 16 to 22 years in prison in the stabbing of a Bronx woman whom he later tried to bribe so she
would not testify truthfully against him.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant attacked the victim, causing serious injuries,
and when she was ready to serve as a witness against him he tried to corrupt the criminal
justice process by offering her money to lie to a grand jury. I applaud the victim for going
forward in the case, and now her assailant will serve time in prison for his crimes.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Shakur Carrasquillo, 40, of 763 East 213th
Street, was sentenced today to 16 to 22 years in prison for Attempted Assault First Degree,
second-degree Assault, Bribery of a Witness, Perjury and Conspiracy by Bronx Supreme Court
Justice Robert Neary. Carrasquillo was convicted by a jury on March 19, 2018.
According to trial testimony, in August, 2015, the 26-year-old victim passed a gun to two
men who shot at the defendant on White Plains Road. The defendant chased the victim down
and stabbed her. Then, on February 20, 2016, on Holland Avenue, Carrasquillo and another
suspect got out of a car and stabbed the victim in her stomach and in her right ear. He was
arrested in that incident, and then had a relative offer her a total of $4,000 to lie about the
incident in the grand jury.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Robert Konner of the 47th Precinct Squad
and Department of Correction Investigator and Liaison Scott Frank for their assistance in the
case.
