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- A Brooklyn man was sentenced to decades behind bars for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s mother and stepfather, shooting and stabbing both years ago, the local district attorney said.
- Jerry Maisonett, 35, was sentenced Thursday to 22 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder on Aug. 8, 2022, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Wednesday.
- Citing an investigation, González said that on December 28, 2015, at around 3:30 p.m., Maisonett and another person shot and stabbed Rosie Sánchez, 38, and Anderson Nunez, 40, in their apartment in Sheepshead Bay. . Brooklyn. Maisonett’s ex-girlfriend, Destiny Garcia, also lived in the apartment.
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man was sentenced to decades behind bars for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s mother and stepfather, shooting and stabbing both years ago, the local district attorney said.
Jerry Maisonett, 35, was sentenced Thursday to 22 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder on Aug. 8, 2022, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Wednesday.
Citing an investigation, González said that on December 28, 2015, at around 3:30 p.m., Maisonett and another person shot and stabbed Rosie Sánchez, 38, and Anderson Nunez, 40, in their Batchelder Street apartment. , in Sheepshead Bay. Brooklyn. Maisonett’s ex-girlfriend, Destiny Garcia, also lived in the apartment.
Sánchez was shot in the head and stabbed in the heart. Meanwhile, Nunez was shot twice and stabbed more than 30 times.
Maisonett was arrested nearly two months later, on February 16, 2016, following an investigation.
“Today’s lengthy sentence holds this defendant accountable for his role in this brutal and horrifying double murder that took the lives of two innocent victims,” González said Wednesday.
Garcia, 22, meanwhile, was arrested on January 4, 2016, after she discussed the murders with a cousin, who later informed police.
Garcia was later convicted of two counts of first degree manslaughter and one count of second degree criminal possession of a weapon. She will be sentenced on August 3, 2023.
