New York City jurors convicted a 22-year-old man in the killing of a female jogger in Queens, whose 2016 slaying set off a months-long manhunt.
Defendant Chanel Lewis, right, is seated at the defense table at Supreme Court in the Queens Borough of New York, on March 26, 2019, during the sixth day of his re-trial for the murder of Karina Vetrano, who was killed while running along a trail in a local park in August 2016. Lewis' previous trial ended in a hung jury.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
But he didn’t accompany her that day. When she didn’t return, her father called 911 to report her missing and a search was organized. Lewis was arrested nearly six months after Vetrano's death, and prosecutors presented evidence of Lewis' DNA found under Vetrano's fingernails. Phillip and Catherine Vetrano, parents of Karina Vetrano, arrive to court in New York on March 20, 2019. Chanel Lewis is accused of killing their daughter.But Lewis' defense lawyers insisted that confession was coerced and that the crime scene was tainted by the victim's father.
"Multiple legal hearings and two criminal trials, over more than two years, have already exhaustively examined the issues in this anonymous, 11th-hour letter, a missive riddled with falsehoods and inaccuracies,” the NYPD said in a statement on Monday, NBC New York reported.
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