A 25-year-old girl with a prolonged rap sheet surrendered alongside a celeb legal professional Monday over the deadly stabbing of a Staten Island mother who was making an attempt to guard her 12-year-old daughter, authorities and sources stated.
Jasmin Thompson was joined by Mario Gallucci — who goes by the moniker “Mr. Acquittal” on X — when she turned herself in to face a homicide cost at Staten Island’s 120 Precinct round 9:40 a.m. in connection to the Tuesday social media-fueled slaying of Jennira Roundtree, 43, outdoors the sufferer’s residence constructing inside NYCHA’s West Brighton Homes, cops and sources stated.
She additionally faces prices for manslaughter, assault and prison possession of a weapon, police stated.
Thompson’s rap sheet consists of six prior arrests — principally for assaults between 2018 and 2019 — in addition to chjarges for petit larceny and reckless endangerment, sources stated.
She was additionally busted whereas in lockup in 2023 for a contraband-related offense, the sources added.
Thompson knifed Roundtree a number of instances in her chest throughout a social media-fueled melee outdoors the general public housing constructing on Henderson Avenue close to Alaska Avenue, authorities and sources stated.
The brawl concerned about 20 women — principally younger teenagers who had been joined by an grownup now decided to be Thompson, cops and sources stated.
Roundtree entered the fracas to defend her younger daughter – however then grew to become the goal, the sources stated.
After struggling a number of stab wounds, she was taken to Richmond College Medical Heart, the place she died, in response to police.
Roundtree’s mates had initially known as the younger lady’s older sister for assist, however the quick-acting mom received concerned, one neighbor informed The Day by day Information.
The neighbor stated scaffolding obstructed her view of the mayhem, however she heard what occurred. She ran downstairs and already noticed officers serving to take away Roundtree from the scene.
“The police took her,” she stated. “After they carried her, I noticed she had numerous blood. I heard her say, ‘I can’t breathe!’ That’s the one factor she stated.”
Gallucci – who rose to fame by repping defendants in high-profile violent crimes, and later, by the USA Community TV present “Companions in Crime” — didn’t instantly return a telephone name from The Put up.
He and his accomplice “Huge Lou” Gelormino have made a enterprise taking over notorious circumstances corresponding to Eric Bellucci’s homicide of his mother and father inside their dwelling in October 2010.
Bellucci later known as himself the “Son of Sam,” a reference to the Huge Apple serial killer within the Nineteen Seventies, and threatened to shoot Gallucci if he pursued an madness protection for him, the Staten Island Advance reported.
He additionally represented Michael Cammarata, the estranged husband of a lacking Staten Island schoolteacher who prosecutors say teamed up together with his six-month pregnant girlfriend to kill his spouse, burn her physique and conceal it in a storage locker in 2019.
Simply final yr, Gallucci represented Christopher Gregor, 31, the New Jersey dad convicted of killing his 6-year-old son by forcing him right into a bruising treadmill exercise.
