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COURIER L 6 IFE, APRIL 5–11, 2019 M BR B G
Brooklyn man is
guilty of murder
Verdict in second trial leads to applause
GUILTY: Chanel Lewis, center, was convicted
of murdering Karina Vetrano in Queens on
Aug. 2, 2016. File photo
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Just hours after closing arguments
were completed, a jury reached a verdict
in the second trial of the Brooklyn
man accused of murdering Queens jogger
Karina Vetrano, it was reported .
Chanel Lewis, 22, was found guilty
of committing the Aug. 2, 2016 murder
and sexual assault of Vetrano, who was
brutally beaten and choked after going
out for a run blocks from her 84th
Street home. Lewis was arrested for the
crime six months after it occurred, tied
to the homicide through DNA evidence
recovered at the scene.
NY1 reported that applause broke
out in the courtroom after the guilty
verdict was announced on April 1.
Queens Chief Assistant District Attorney
John Ryan hoped that the outcome
would “give the Vetrano family some
closure and comfort knowing her killer
will likely spend the rest of his life
behind bars.”
“A vibrant, young woman’s life came
to an abrupt and violent end at the hands
of a then-20-year-old Brooklyn man,”
Ryan said on Monday night. “Ms. Vetrano’s
death was brutal. She was pulled
from a park pathway, sexually assaulted
and, in her last moments of life, she
gasped for air as the defendant’s hands
tightened around her neck.”
Monday’s verdict marked the end
of Lewis’s second trial, and came
nearly fi ve months after a mistrial
was declared in the fi rst case just
before Thanksgiving 2018 due to a
deadlocked jury.
The quick verdict also came about
after Lewis’s defense team fi led a motion
against the DNA evidence, submitting
an anonymous letter which
claimed that the case was “racially-biased”
and that detectives had collected
DNA samples from more than 300 black
men. The motion was ultimately dismissed.
Vetrano’s body was found among
the tall reeds of Spring Creek Park
hours after her father reported her
missing on Aug. 2, 2016. A six-month
search for her killer turned up nothing,
even though forensic detectives recovered
enough genetic evidence from
the crime scene to create a DNA profi le
of her killer. The profi le did not match
anyone in the state’s DNA databank up
to that point.
Police caught a break in the case
in February 2017 when an NYPD lieutenant
recalled seeing Lewis weeks
earlier near the park where Vetrano
was killed on an unrelated matter.
Detectives questioned Lewis and obtained
from him a DNA sample which
was said to match the DNA profi le of
Vetrano’s killer.
According to trial testimony, Lewis
entered the park on the night of the
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