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Hall stabbed and beat victim Margarita Rivera on Watson Place in Jamaica.
By Forum Staff
Former champion boxer, Trevis Hall of Far Rockaway, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the vicious murder of his former girlfriend, who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death with a pipe, on a Jamaica, Queens, street in December 2014.
Hall – a former featherweight boxer and Golden Gloves winner – was apprehended unconscious and in a dumpster following a suicide attempt later that day.
“Breaking up with someone should not equal a death sentence, but in a violent rage this defendant carried out a brutal execution of his former lover. With a pipe and a knife, the defendant viciously stabbed and beat the 31-year-old victim in the middle of the street,’ District Attorney Brown said. “The defendant … purchased the pipe just 90 minutes before the fatal assault and still had the receipt with the matching SKU number in his pocket when he was apprehended. The sentence imposed by the Court today is more than warranted.”
Hall, 31, of Brookhaven Boulevard in the Far Rockaway was found guilty of one count of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in July. Queens Supreme Court Justice Barry A. Schwartz, sentenced him to 25 years to life in prison.
According to trial testimony, the defendant’s former girlfriend, Margarita Rivera, 31, was on Watson Place in Jamaica, Queens, at approximately 2:30 p.m. on December 1, 2014, when the defendant approached her. Hall stabbed her numerous times in the chest and used the pipe to repeatedly strike her in the head. Police responding to the scene found the victim in a pool of her own blood and bleeding profusely from her head, but when she was asked who did this to her, she managed to say “Tre” three times. Ms. Rivera was taken to a local Queens hospital, but died of her injuries. The murder weapons – the knife and pipe – were both recovered at the crime scene.
Later the same day, EMT responded to a call of a man passed out in a dumpster on 127th Street in Richmond Hill. The unconscious man was Hall and he was taken to the same hospital where Ms. Rivera died. Hall was placed under arrest and police recovered a Home Depot receipt in one of his pockets. That receipt had the SKU number for the pipe that was found at the murder scene. Investigators later observed video surveillance from the Home Depot store that showed the defendant purchasing the pipe around 1 p.m. that same day.
