Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced on Friday, August 3, that a 34-year-old Massachusetts resident, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a Forest Hills man in June 2009, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On June 17, 2009, Alexys Fermaintt, 34, of Massachusetts entered Michael Pecora’s Forest Hills apartment on 65th Avenue and stabbed Pecora, 38, multiple times, causing his death. Fermaintt took the victim’s laptop computer, cell phone and watch before feeling the scene. The two allegedly arranged a meeting inside Pecora’s apartment online.
In a press release, Brown said, “The sentence imposed today by the Court hopefully will provide a measure of solace to the victim’s family by allowing them to know that justice has been served and that the person responsible for the brutal attack on their loved one will serve a lengthy prison sentence.”
Fermaintt, who pleaded guilty two months ago to first-degree manslaughter before Queens County Supreme Court Justice Gregory L. Lasak, was held without bail since his arrest in June of 2009.
Assistant District Attorney Shawn Clark, of District Attorney Brown’s Homicide Trials Bureau, prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Brad A. Leventhal, Bureau Chief, and Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Bureau Chief, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant Attorney for Major Crimes, Charles A. Testagrosa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorny for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.
