A jury from Manhattan on Monday convicted three people for killing and looting gay bars and club patrons and looting their deaths.
Two people were killed because their bank accounts were laden. One of them, Julio Ramirz, was left behind the taxi. Second, John Amberger died in a town house where his attackers separated with his lifeless body.
Three people, 37 -year -old Jacon Hamilton, 32, and 36 -year -old Robert Demo were also convicted of robbery and conspiracy at the trial.
About 2:30 pm on Monday afternoon, after about four -hour conversation, the jury foomon stood from his seat in the jury box and announced the decision of “guilty” for every counting of the defendants. When she was talking, the men of the men’s family took a hug.
When the three left the courtroom, their hands were stuck behind their backs, friends and relatives in the gallery screamed, “Love you”. Mr Demio looked at the crowd when he was taken, the tears were descending on his red face.
The three men were convicted of the murder of Mr. Ramirz as well as the conspiracy and the various counting of robbery. Both Mr Demio and Mr Hamilton were convicted of theft and the murder of Mr. Amberjar.
Everyone is sentenced to 25 years in prison in jail.
Manhattan’s prosecutor said his scheme was implemented. They wandered outside the midwriting bars near the closing time, knowing that they would face young people who were flexible after drinking alcohol after one night. After talking to the victims, the prosecution said, “These people will give them drugs to suppress them and then steal their phone and credit cards.”
Assistant District Attorney, Meghan Hest, told the state Supreme Court’s jury during the closing arguments last week, “If they die from a fantasy, this is an extra bonus, which gives you more time to buy. “
Ms Hest said that these men showed “complete neglect for human life” in putting her “deadly stir” into practice. When they spoke, the photos of Mr. Ramers and Mr. Amberger appeared on a screen. Mr Ramir’s mother, sitting in the gallery, started crying.
These attacks, in 2022, created fear among the people of New York, who have yet begun to enjoy the city’s night life after lockdown through the Coid 19 pandemic diseases.
More than a dozen people interviewed by the New York Times identified drugs in gay bars and then looted it and left unconscious. Mr Hamilton, Mr. Baroso and Mr Demo had heard from several men who survived similar competitions.
One witness described his credit card and phone missing in the missing hotel room and waking up alone. The prosecutor later showed him two pictures of two people who were in the hotel lobby on a luggage basket this morning. Another witness said that he could not remember to breathe a substance that another person had put in his nose, as shown in a video shown to the jury.
Prosecutors showed the jury cellphone tower data, text exchanges, security video footage and other evidence used by investigators when they looted their victims and then purchased alcohol, shoes and other items.
The jury also heard from medical inspectors, who decided that Mr. Amberger, 33, and Mr Ramier, 25, were killed by Phantanic Les drug cocktail. Text messages suggest that Mr. Demo was responsible for the phenomenon. Emily Chung, a prosecutor, has described it as “the perfect medicine for defusing her victims”.
In April 2022, Mr. Ramirz, a social worker, was drinking a liquor with a friend, Carlos Kamacho, a friend at the Ritz Bar and Lounge on West 46th Street. It was the last stop of the night that he spent on hipping and taking the bar at the drag show.
Mr Kamachao testified that he had accelerated drinking during the night and that as the evening continued in the evening, Bobli Mr. Ramirers had retired.
But at some point, Mr Kamachao said, he was separated, and he went home, where he expects Mr Ramarers to eventually reach according to the plan.
It was discovered that Mr Ramarers had left the bar and entered a taxi with three people, including Mr Hamilton and Mr Baroso. The men released Mr Ramers in the back of the taxi, and the driver flagged the police officer.
A month later, Mr. Amberger, a political adviser to Washington DC, was last seen leaving two people with two people through prosecutors named Mr Hamilton and Mr Demio.
Jorz saw pictures of Mr Demo, sitting on the bed with Mr Amberger, who was unconscious and slipped to the floor with his lower body on his back. In a video shown to the jury, the camera went into a vast balcony, where Mr Hamilton appears to be launching against the railing with drinking alcohol in his hand.
Mr Amberger’s body was found in the same position less than a week in an Upper East Side Town House.
Manhattan District Attorney, Elon L. Brig, said in a statement after the decision, “I know that the losers of my loved ones are still suffering a lot, and I hope the decision is at least some limit. Can provide comfort. ” .
Outside the court, Mr. Amberger’s mother, Linda Cleary, thanked the prosecution. “No one else will hurt these people, and we are just grateful and happy,” he said, “he emoted his voice thick.
Police initially considered the two deaths as a isolated limits, but relatives of Mr Ramarers and Mr Ambrger called for further investigation for further investigation that a large amount was returned from the men’s account. When they were dead.
Two other men in the scheme had earlier confessed to the allegations of robbery and is expected to be sentenced to eight years in prison next month.
