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Hospital psych patient convicted of fatally beating another patient

June 30, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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A 23-year-old man who was in a psychiatric facility has been convicted of murder for attacking a fellow patient in the shower, beating him to death and strangling him with a towel, according to Kings County District Attorney Ken Thompson.  

Spence Andrews, 23, of Bedford-Stuyvesant was convicted Thursday of one count of second-degree murder after a jury trial before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Miriam Cyrulnik. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 12, and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison. 

According to trial testimony, on March 19, 2013 about 9 p.m. at St. John’s Interfaith Hospital, 1545 Atlantic Ave., Andrews repeatedly struck Conrad Delimar, 47, in the face while the victim was taking a shower. Andrews then climbed on top of Delimar while he was lying on the floor and continued to strike him in the face and head with closed fists. Finally, he tied a towel around Delimar’s neck.

A day earlier, Andrews’ grandmother called 911 after he had returned home and said he was behaving erratically, according to testimony. He was then taken by ambulance to the hospital and admitted for psychiatric evaluation.

The next day a nurse saw him standing by a pay phone while soaking wet, as though he had just emerged from the shower. He alleged that Delimar had groped him in the shower, according to trial testimony. A nurse went to investigate and found Delimar in a pool of his own blood, unresponsive, on the bathroom floor. The cause of death was blunt force trauma causing a fractured skull and strangulation.

“This defendant, who brutally beat and strangled to death a fellow patient, will now spend many years in prison for his sadistic acts,” said Thompson.

 

–Information from Kings County District Attorney’s Office

 

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