A Brooklyn teenager who almost killed a 12-year-old by stabbing him a dozen times in Highland Park was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison last week.
Two years ago, police said then 15-year-old Wayne Henderson and his girlfriend stabbed Luis Martinez four times in the torso and back, two times in the chest and cut his jugular veins, leaving him in Highland Park along the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
They also carved an X into his cheek before fleeing.
Henderson, of 250 Ridgewood Avenue in the East New York section of Brooklyn, was convicted in December of second-degree attempted murder and two counts of first degree assault before Queens County Supreme Court Justice James P. Griffin.
District Attorney Richard Brown announced on Jan. 26 that Henderson had been sentenced to five to 10 years in prison.
The attack occurred on the night of Jan. 9, 2010 when the three were allegedly smoking pot in the park near the Brooklyn-Queens boarder.
According to testimony, Henderson was at Highland Park with his then 14-year-old girlfriend, Carina Parache. Some time after 8 p.m., Martinez and Henderson got into a verbal argument.
It quickly turned physical, and Henderson began stabbing Martinez up to a dozen times.
According to testimony, Henderson then fled, throwing a knife to the ground as he ran.
Parache previously admitted to being part of the attack, including kicking Martinez and stabbing him in the leg and neck, before running away with her boyfriend.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder on March 24, 2011, and was sentenced to a term of two to six years in prison.
In 2010, police originally charged Henderson for the attack after questioning and releasing Parache.
Martinez did recover from the near-fatal attack. He was found by a motorist that January along Jackie Robinson Parkway.
Originally, officials thought he’d been thrown from a car. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he as treated for severe blood loss and underwent reconstructive surgery.
“The 14-year-old defendant is accused of taking part with her boyfriend in a senseless but deliberate attack on someone they once called a friend,” said Brown at the time of the attack. “This is a sad case of young children throwing their lives away by allowing a verbal argument to escalate into deadly violence. Fortunately, the victim will survive but all three will carry the emotional scars of that night for the rest of their lives.”
