A 25-year-old girl with a prolonged rap sheet surrendered alongside a celeb lawyer Monday over the deadly stabbing of a Staten Island mother who was attempting to guard her 12-year-old daughter, authorities and sources mentioned.
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, exterior the sufferer’s house constructing inside NYCHA’s West Brighton Homes, cops and sources mentioned.
She additionally faces fees for manslaughter, assault and felony possession of a weapon, police mentioned.
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 mentioned.
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 exterior the general public housing constructing on Henderson Avenue close to Alaska Road, authorities and sources mentioned.
The brawl concerned about 20 ladies — principally younger teenagers who had been joined by an grownup now decided to be Thompson, cops and sources mentioned.
Roundtree entered the fracas to defend her younger daughter – however then turned the goal, the sources mentioned.
After struggling a number of stab wounds, she was taken to Richmond College Medical Heart, the place she died, in accordance with police.
Roundtree’s pals had initially known as the younger woman’s older sister for assist, however the quick-acting mom bought concerned, one neighbor instructed The Day by day Information.
The neighbor mentioned 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 mentioned. “Once they carried her, I noticed she had numerous blood. I heard her say, ‘I can’t breathe!’ That’s the one factor she mentioned.”
Gallucci – who rose to fame by repping defendants in high-profile violent crimes, and later, by means of the USA Community TV present “Companions in Crime” — didn’t instantly return a telephone name from The Submit.
He and his companion “Huge Lou” Gelormino have made a enterprise taking up notorious circumstances comparable to Eric Bellucci’s homicide of his dad and mom inside their house 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 along with his six-months pregnant girlfriend to kill his spouse, burn her physique and conceal it in a storage locker in 2019.
Simply final 12 months, 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.
