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Hillside Hotel
By Forum Staff
An Elmont man has been convicted of shooting his wife during a dispute at a hotel in Jamaica in March 2020, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday.
Malcom White, 44, was convicted Friday after a two-week jury trial before Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Yavinsky. White was found guilty of attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Yavinsky set sentencing for Sept. 28. The defendant faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
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District Attorney Katz characterized this case as “especially heinous.”
Katz said, according to trial testimony, on March 27, 2020, emergency medical technicians and police responded to a 911 call from the Hillside Hotel on Queens Boulevard in Jamaica. Upon their arrival, emergency responders searched to find the exact source of the earlier distress call. A callback led to the defendant who was sharing a hotel room with his wife, 34-year-old Charisse Ayres. When EMTs contacted the defendant’s room, White told them, “If you come in here, I’ll blow her head off.”
Police also responded to the hotel in search of the couple and their room. The victim was found in the hotel lobby, naked, with a gunshot wound to her arm and several bone fractures to her face. Police attempted to gain entry to White’s hotel room by kicking in the dead-bolted door. Inside, police found blood in various places around the room. Police later recovered a fired bullet from a drained bathtub and found two cell phones – one concealed under the mattress and another in the toilet. A tower of old tires beneath a broken window in the hotel room led police to conduct an area search outside. The defendant was discovered naked behind the hotel. Police also recovered an unloaded revolver near the back of the hotel.
Katz called this case “especially heinous.”
