QUEENS, NY \u2014 A man faces a murder charge in Queens after authorities said he killed his neighbor in an ambushed stabbing attack last week. <\/p>\n
Dimitrios Manessis, 48, walked into a courtroom last week for arraignment on a slew of charges connected to the death of 75-year-old George Dourdounas, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Dourdounas, who was Manessis\u2019s neighbor, was ambushed outside his first-floor apartment at around 1:20 p.m. on March 3, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Manessis had allegedly been standing outside his apartment when Dourdounas entered the building. Manessis then punched Dourdounas, causing the 75-year-old man to fall to the ground, officials said. <\/p>\n
While Dourdounas was on the ground, Manessis entered his apartment, grabbed a sharp object, and repeatedly stabbed him, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Manessis then allegedly returned inside his home covered in blood, investigators added. <\/p>\n
A neighbor who entered the building during the violent attack called 911, and responding NYPD officers apprehended Manessis at the scene. <\/p>\n
Investigators determined that Manessis had been involved in a dispute with the 75-year-old man before the killing, though details about the argument have not been disclosed. <\/p>\n
“This is a senseless act of violence that has rattled the Astoria community,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz in a statement. “The defendant is accused of stabbing an elderly neighbor to death over a perceived slight. Everyone deserves to feel safe in their own home and in their own neighborhood.” <\/p>\n
Manessis faces 25 years to life in prison, if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A man faces a murder charge in Queens after authorities said he killed his neighbor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-160671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160671","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=160671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}