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According to trial records, at approximately 2 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2016, Williams, along with three others, entered a home on 110th Street in South Richmond Hill. Williams believed the group would find a large cache of Xanax pills, marijuana, and cash inside.
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A Forest Hills man has been convicted at trial for his participation in a botched South Richmond Hill home invasion in 2016 that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old man, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
Kristof Williams, 27, was found guilty last Wednesday of murder in the second degree and two counts of burglary in the first degree. Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise set Williams’s sentencing for May 6. At that time, Williams faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
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DA Katz characterized Williams as “a participant in this senseless act of violence.”
According to trial records, at approximately 2 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2016, Williams, along with three others, entered a home on 110th Street in South Richmond Hill. Williams believed the group would find a large cache of Xanax pills, marijuana, and cash inside.
DA Katz said Williams and the three other attackers found Eddie Ventura, 20, in a bedroom playing video games with two others. Ventura fought with one of the men and was stabbed numerous times in the back and thigh. Ventura died as a result of the stab wounds.
Khalil Moses pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to 21 years in prison in September 2020. John Pichardo pleaded guilty to burglary in the first degree and was sentenced in July 2020 to 15 years in prison. Jose Pichardo was found guilty at trial of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison in October 2021.
“After nearly two weeks of listening to testimony, a jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the death of a young man who was at a friend’s home playing video games when he was suddenly attacked and killed. This defendant was a participant in this senseless act of violence,” Katz said. “His fate will now be determined when the court sentences him for his criminal actions.”
