{"id":2092,"date":"2025-10-14T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:38:09","slug":"doctors-holding-defendant-in-staten-island-decapitation-case-as-prosecutors-hand-over-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2092\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors holding defendant in Staten Island decapitation case as prosecutors hand over indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Richmond University Medical Center\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6SOED4D6DVDZVPRIFL7GADBBTQ.jpg\"\/>Exterior photos of Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, including the hospital&#8217;s new Emergency Department.   (Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"P7H5LYRGTFHVZKBM7MCUG3Q4SA\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 While prosecutors on Friday handed over a certificate of indictment for Damien Hurstel in the decapitation of his mother\u2019s long-time boyfriend, the defendant remained absent from court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TESYHUOFBNFVDM4KVTOKJOV2PQ\">A Staten Island grand jury this week indicted Hurstel on charges that include second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in connection with the slaying on Monday inside the family\u2019s West Brighton home.  <\/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":"Exterior photos of Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, including the hospital&#8217;s new Emergency Department. (Advance\/SILive.com |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-2092","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\/2092","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=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}