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A Long Beach man has been indicted for allegedly fatally stabbing a Bellport woman who was the mother of three children.<\/p>\n
In the early morning hours of May 16, the victim and her friend allegedly drove the victim\u2019s black sedan to Long Beach to pick up Michael McHenry, who had just moved in with the victim, Juliann Bachmann, and her three children two months prior. Just after 6:30 a.m., Bachmann allegedly dropped her friend off at a motel in Shirley, leaving McHenry as her only passenger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Less than an hour later, at approximately 7:15 a.m., a witness allegedly saw a male, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the black sedan, grab a female in the vehicle by the hair and <\/p>\n
repeatedly strike her in the face while she screamed that he was going to kill her. The witness called 911 to report what they witnessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A second witness allegedly observed the black sedan on Montauk Highway and saw a woman in the driver\u2019s seat screaming for help. The witness then allegedly observed the sedan pull into an automotive shop in Shirley, saw a man exit the passenger side of the vehicle, and pull a female out of the driver\u2019s seat as she was clutching the left side of her neck. The male then allegedly sped away in the sedan with the victim still inside. Video surveillance recovered by law enforcement from the automotive shop allegedly depicts the entire encounter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
At approximately 7:20 a.m., an off-duty Suffolk County police captain was driving on Victory\u00a0 Avenue in Yaphank when a black sedan came up behind him and was tailgating him at a high rate\u00a0 of speed before passing his vehicle. When the captain glanced over at the black sedan, he allegedly noticed that the headrest was soaked in blood and a person in the rear seat of the vehicle appeared to be in distress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The captain followed the vehicle into a Speedway Gas Station in Yaphank, where McHenry allegedly got out of the driver\u2019s seat and pulled the victim, who had a visible neck wound, from the rear passenger seat. McHenry was arrested at the gas station.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bachmann, 30, was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk where she was pronounced dead. The\u00a0 Suffolk County Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and ruled the cause of death to be a stab wound to her neck.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Law enforcement executed a search warrant for the black sedan, which was allegedly covered in blood. During the execution of the search warrant, detectives allegedly recovered an open tactical knife from the sedan.<\/p>\n
On June 3, McHenry was arraigned on the indictment before Supreme Court Justice Steven\u00a0 A. Pilewski for Murder in the Second Degree, a Class A-I felony. Pilewski ordered McHenry remanded during the pendency of the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA young mother of three was brutally killed, allegedly by this defendant,\u201d said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. \u201cThis office will pursue every avenue available under the law to deliver justice to her,\u00a0 her family, and her three children.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
McHenry is due back in court on July 17 and faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted on the top count.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man has been indicted for allegedly fatally stabbing a Bellport woman who was the mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-345611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}