An unapologetic Harlem man was sentenced Tuesday to twenty years to life in jail for his position within the brutal homicide of a US Military veteran — a case that has drawn bitter anger over Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lenience.
Christopher Saunders, 40, was convicted at trial in November for gang assault within the first diploma within the 2018 stabbing demise of Hason Correa in Harlem.
“I didn’t go on the market seeking to harm no one,” a soft-spoken Saunders mentioned in Manhattan Prison Courtroom. “I do really feel regret, no one ought to need to die.”
“I additionally really feel like if I wasn’t there it may have gone the opposite manner – Hason may have been sitting right here dealing with time and my brother, my sister, and Travis may have been lifeless,” he mentioned.
Correa, 35, a vet and married father of three was fatally crushed and stabbed in 2018 after getting jumped by not less than 4 individuals, together with Saunders, throughout a scuffle in Harlem.
His 56-year-old father was critically injured on the time of the melee.
Kristy Correa, Hason’s widow, cried in courtroom as she spoke of her beloved husband.
“He was a lovely man– inside and outside. He was loving and he was caring and he was playful and he was variety and he was courageous,” she mentioned. ‘He gave 8 years of life to this nation, he was a embellished warfare vet, went to Afghanistan and bought shot.”
“I want my husband was getting life at the moment as an alternative of being 6 ft beneath,” Kristy instructed Decide Gregory Carro.
Correa’s mom, Madeline Brame, who has blamed progressive politicians for rewarding her son’s killer, lashed out at Saunders.
“You ambushed my son – he had no likelihood,” yelled Brame. “My life has been fully in chaos and in turmoil.”
Saunders was considered one of 4 individuals charged within the homicide of the Afghanistan Battle veteran throughout a brawl exterior a Harlem condo constructing in October 2018.
His brothers, Travis and James Saunders, and sister Mary Stewart are additionally charged.
Brame first vented her outrage in a blistering June letter to Bragg and Gov. Kathy Hochul,
“You and your workplace selected to not meaningfully seek the advice of our household that you just had been going to dismiss the homicide fees in opposition to two of the individuals… till after you agreed to that cope with the attorneys representing the defendants,” she wrote.
“Why did you not need the Decide to listen to our voice? Why did you not need the general public to listen to what our household thought concerning the dismissal of homicide fees in opposition to two people who, the prior administration and murder prosecutors mentioned, had been clearly accountable?”
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