A Brooklyn man was convicted of murder in the cold case killing of a 31-year-old man found naked and bludgeoned in his Queens home in 2011.
A Brooklyn man was convicted of murder in the cold case killing of a 31-year-old man found naked and bludgeoned in his Queens home in 2011, the local district attorney announced.
Gerald Griffin, 46 and of Brooklyn, was convicted by a jury of murder, burglary, robbery, intimidating a witness, attempted tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a weapon, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday.A Brooklyn man was convicted of murder in the cold case killing of a 31-year-old man found naked and bludgeoned in his Queens home in 2011, the local district attorney announced.
Gerald Griffin, 46 and of Brooklyn, was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, burglary in the first degree, robbery in the first and second degrees, intimidating a witness in the third degree, attempted tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday.Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox.
According to the charges and trial testimony, on Sept.14, 2011, at around 5 p.m., Peter Polizzi was found by his brother inside his Ridgewood apartment, underneath a couch, naked and severely beaten. Responding officers recovered a used wine glass and a bloody baseball bat, according to trial testimony. Polizzi died three days later.
According to the trial, the apartment had been ransacked and various items were missing. Detectives investigating the incident obtained information from a friend of the family who saw two men leaving the location at around 11:15 a.m. on that day, with one wearing a T-shirt that read, “Irving Scrap Metal.”
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