Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Christian Millet, 23, fatally stabbed Edwin Echevarria, 65, with a homemade ice pick. Bragg said Millet lived with Echevarria — who was Millet’s grandmother’s ex-boyfriend — and attacked him while he was on the phone.
“Anthony Lopez went to great lengths to seek retribution and bloodshed, and his fixation ultimately led to the death of a completely innocent man,” said District Attorney Bragg. “I hope the significant state prison term that Lopez will serve gives Mr. Weeks’s family a sense of justice and peace. Combatting gun violence continues to be my top priority, and we are laser-focused on shootings involving retribution and retaliation.”
“Christian Millet allegedly committed a shocking and brutal murder, and my thoughts are with Mr. Echevarria’s loved ones,” said District Attorney Bragg. “I want to thank our prosecutors and the NYPD detectives who worked quickly and diligently to connect the facts and evidence in this case. I want New Yorkers to know that we have the deep expertise to bring even the most challenging cases.”
Inside Manhattan’s criminal courthouse, an experiment of sorts is now underway, a unique collaboration between the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and The Fortune Society.
A woman raped and tortured for six years by a Manhattan superintendent who hired her to clean apartments in a building he managed slammed the ex-boss as a “horrible monster” ahead of his sentencing Monday to 22 years in prison.
