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New terrifying details emerge in horror Staten Island Murder in which a 19-year-old boy allegedly beheaded his mother’s live-in lover earlier this month.
Police say Damien Herstel admitted to stabbing and decapitating Anthony Casalaspro, 45, inside the family’s Cary Avenue home in West Brighton on Oct. 6.
According to shocking new reports obtained by The Times, Herstel allegedly scooped out the victim’s brain with a spoon and put it in a blender. New York Post. It is not clear what the teenager wanted to do in this case.
Disturbing photo of crime scene obtained by Post Casalaspro’s body was shown with a plastic soup ladle attached to the torso – and his severed head lying with a spoon nearby.
According to neighbors, Herstel, who was arrested at the scene that day, was silent as police led him out of the house. Independent In the view.
“Honestly, he seemed like he was free from whatever was going on,” Jennifer Diaz said. “He seemed relieved. He was very calm… like he was there but he wasn’t there.”
The teen has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and weapons possession, and was recently moved from the hospital to solitary confinement at Rikers Island.
On Friday, Herstel’s attorney, Mark Fonte, met with him in Rikers before his court appearance in Richmond County Supreme Court.
“It was very cold,” Fonte said. Post“He was having great difficulty separating fantasy from reality. He wasn’t sure what had really happened.”
Fonte said the teen seemed confused about his arrest and hospitalization.
Fonte recalled Herstel saying, “I think I might have fought two other guys in there.” “I remember punching a guy in the face, but I’m not really sure that happened. I don’t know if it’s something I’m imagining, or whether it actually happened.”
Herstel’s mother, Alicia Zayas, 39, said Post The horrifying moment her 16-year-old daughter witnessed the bloody scene in the bathroom, and the chilling words her son said afterward.
“She said, ‘Are you going to hurt Mommy?'” Zayas recalled her daughter, Brie, asking Herstel.
“And he said, ‘Do you want him to live?'”
When Bree pleads for her mother’s life, she is allowed to leave – and she immediately runs outside to call Zaius and warn him.
Zayas said her son struggled with mental illness for years, beginning at age 13, when he began having hallucinations and drawing disturbing images of what he saw. He was given antipsychotic medication, which he said helped stabilize him for a time. But once he turned 18, he was shut out of his medical decisions and his condition began to deteriorate, Zayas said.
In January, Richmond University Medical Center allegedly changed Herstel’s medication without notifying Zayas, she claimed, and her son’s condition quickly worsened thereafter.
Herstel has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.