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Josefina Mendoza was stabbed more than 300 times in an apartment near Jamaica Avenue and 184th Street.
By Forum Staff
After viciously stabbing his 68-year-old wife, Josefina Mendoza, to death, NaserAlzein, 55, was sentenced to 24 years in prison last Friday.
The victim’s body was found under a table in the apartment the couple shared in November 2014.
District Attorney Brown said, “This was one of the most violent murder scenes one could imagine. The victim had a knife plunged into her body more than 300 times — many of the wounds to the woman’s face. The defendant called 911 and claimed he found the victim dead in the apartment, but evidence showed he brutally killed her and then tried to cover it up. To punish him for this criminal act an to protect society, the defendant will likely spend the rest of his life incarcerated.”
Alzein, a resident of Flushing, pleadguilty in April to first-degree manslaughter before Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth C. Holder.
District Attorney Brown said that, according to the charges, on November 8, 2014, between 7:00 p.m. and 11:45 p.m., Mendoza was stabbed more than 300 times. There were over 200 wounds just to her face.
The defendant called 911 to report he had found the victim’s dead body in the apartment, but he had a cut on his hand and was seen on video surveillance pacing outside the apartment building before going back inside to call police.
