Victim Survived Despite Losing 20 Percent of his Blood
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing his girlfriend’s former boyfriend.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant, Joseph Urgitano, stabbed the victim repeatedly
in the groin, abdomen and legs when he came to visit Urgitano’s girlfriend. Now he has been held
accountable for this brutal assault.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Joseph Urgitano, 51, of 1611 Bay Shore Avenue,
the Bronx, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison and five years post-release supervision by
Bronx Supreme Court Justice James McCarty. A jury found the defendant guilty of first-degree
Assault on July 27, 2018.
According to the investigation, on June 15, 2014, the victim, Luis Quinones, was inside
the vestibule of 2860 Buhre Avenue while he rang the doorbell. Video surveillance from the
building showed Urgitano, also known as “Joey Cupcakes,” and his girlfriend walking downstairs
to the vestibule and then Urgitano stabbing Quinones. The defendant then followed Quinones
upstairs, stabbed him with a knife again and ran out of the building. The weapon used during the
attack was recovered and the defendant’s DNA was found on the handle.
District Attorney Clark thanked Detective Darrell Julien of the NYPD for his assistance
in the case.
