Guilty Plea in 2011 Port Chester Home Invasion Homicide
Jahkim McGhee (DOB 7/2/94) of Port Chester has pled guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree relating to the death of Anthony Guglielmo.
“For over two years, Port Chester police and prosecutors relentlessly worked this case. While initial speculation focused on the victim’s daughter, during the investigation, detectives developed information that the defendant was involved. Over the next two years, investigators interviewed and reinterviewed the defendant. Finally, he admitted to climbing in the window of the victim’s home and stabbing the victim as he was sleeping,” said Acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty.
On Sunday, Sept. 11t, 2011, at approximately 5:30 a.m., Port Chester police received a 911 call of a Burglary in progress at 235 Mortimer Street and that a person had been stabbed.
The call was made by the victim’s then 14 year-old daughter, Nicole Guglielmo, who stated that her father had been stabbed by the intruder.
EMS and Police responded and found the victim lying on the floor of the living room in a massive pool of blood.
A large butcher knife was on the floor and the victim had a stab wound to the chest.
Port Chester police detectives initiated an investigation along with the Westchester County Police who processed the crime scene.
Police, prosecutors and investigators from the District Attorneys office continued to press the case, developing information as to the identity of the perpetrator.
It was revealed that during 2010 and early 2011, the victim and his daughter had lived in an apartment across the street from the defendant.
During the defendant’s plea before the Hon. Barbara Zambelli, who has made a sentence promise of 20 years in state prison, defendant admitted to acting alone when he stabbed the victim.
Sentencing will take place on September 6, 2016.
Assistant District Attorney Perry Perrone, Chief of the Homicide Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Kerrie Williams of the Superior Court Trial Division prosecuted the case.
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