Defendant Pleaded Guilty to First-Degree Manslaughter
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to Manslaughter for stabbing his estranged
wife near a middle school in Morrisania.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant stabbed his estranged wife, with whom he
shared two children, a dozen times near a middle school as students on their way to class
watched in horror. He attacked her two weeks after she decided to leave him after enduring
years of abuse.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Victor Garo, 48, of 1585 Townsend Avenue,
was sentenced today to 17 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision by Bronx
Supreme Court Justice Bahaati Pitt. The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree Manslaughter
on November 20, 2019.
According to the investigation, on the morning of September 25, 2017, the victim, Adalgisa
Garo, 44, walked her son to school and as she returned home alone Garo jumped out of a car and
yelled at her. The victim ran and the defendant chased her and stabbed her 12 times. The attack
happened near a school as 12 and 13-year-old children were passing by. The defendant fled the
scene and was arrested later that day in Hunts Point. The victim was stabbed in the chest and
abdomen. She also had defensive wounds. The victim was taken to Lincoln Hospital where she
was pronounced dead on arrival.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Allan Offley of the 42nd
Precinct, and NYPD Detective Patrick Flatley of Bronx Homicide for their assistance in the
investigation.
