{"id":11534,"date":"2025-10-22T02:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:10:23","slug":"trial-underway-for-ex-boxer-accused-of-killing-daughter-dumping-body-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11534\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial underway for ex-boxer accused of killing daughter, dumping body on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Ola Salem\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3BHAP2YVPFBM3BQXQRWA7OF5EU.jpg\"\/>Ola Salem, 25, was found dead in Bloomingdale Park on the borough&#8217;s South Shore in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YZ5FFFDJWFDGDKHFQ6NLOE2W5U\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Opening arguments were heard Monday in the trial of a Staten Island man and former Olympic boxer who is charged in the 2019 strangulation death of his adult daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5GE2DLENPBAXFBYCQJUVIJ7SEA\">The defendant, now 57-year-old Kabary Salem, is facing a top count of first-degree murder, in addition to alternative charges of third-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. The deceased, 25-year-old Ola Salem, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime\/2020\/10\/a-25-year-old-womans-body-found-in-the-park-a-mystery-and-a-search-ensues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered by a passerby<\/a> in Bloomingdale Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ola Salem, 25, was found dead in Bloomingdale Park on the borough&#8217;s South Shore in 2019. STATEN ISLAND,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}