Crime & SafetyUpdated: Nov. 03, 2025, 1:51 p.m.|Published: Nov. 03, 2025, 1:50 p.m.
In this June 17, 2024 photo, a blood stain remains at the scene of a fatal stabbing along a commercial stretch of Broad Street in Stapleton. (Staten Island Advance/Scott Axelrod)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of Carlos “Shorty” Rivera, court records indicate.
Rivera, 38, of Targee Street in Stapleton, is charged in the death of Joel Badillo, 41, also of Stapleton, who law enforcement sources said was known to him. Badillo died from a stab wound to the chest.
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