{"id":2423,"date":"2025-10-14T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2423\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:53:26","slug":"staten-island-teen-who-allegedly-decapitated-moms-boyfriend-hospitalized-delaying-first-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2423\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island teen who allegedly decapitated mom’s boyfriend hospitalized \u2014 delaying first court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The twisted Staten Island teen\u00a0who allegedly decapitated his mom\u2019s boyfriend<\/a>\u00a0remained hospitalized with a blood infection Wednesday \u2013 and faced a judge from his bed in the grisly crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A green scrubs-clad Damien Hurstel, 19, rested his head on a pillow and spoke in a deep, calm voice as he appeared by video in Richmond County Criminal Court for his arraignment on murder and manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n

The disturbed youth is accused of stabbing city Department of Sanitation worker Anthony Casalaspro, 45, and severing his head Monday morning inside their Cary Avenue home, court papers state.<\/p>\n

Twisted Staten Island teen Damien Hurstel, who allegedly decapitated his mom\u2019s boyfriend, remained hospitalized Wednesday, delaying his first court appearance. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

Hurstel\u2019s accused of stabbing city Department of Sanitation worker Anthony Casalaspro (above) and severing his head Monday morning inside their Cary Avenue home. Facebook\/Anthony Casalaspro<\/p>\n

Criminal defense attorney Mark J. Fonte entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client and successfully asked the judge to line up medical and psychiatric attention for Hurstel, as well as to place him on suicide watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be aggressively trying to research his psychiatric history,\u201d Fonte said after the brief hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a horrendous situation\u2026 I was told that he had a seizure in the holding pens yesterday. He was hospitalized today for blood infection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The arraignment \u2013 during which Judge Biju Kosha ordered Hurstel held without bail \u2013 nearly didn\u2019t happen as Hurstel\u2019s apparent medical woes kept him hospitalized.<\/p>\n

The accused deranged killer had been expected to appear in court Tuesday, but an apparent seizure scuttled that hearing.<\/p>\n

The blood infection kept Hurstel hospitalized Wednesday, leading to his virtual appearance in a courtroom where only two of his family members attended.<\/p>\n

Those family members, an uncle and cousin, as well as others reached by The Post, declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sources have said the troubled teen \u2014\u00a0who has a history of mental health issues<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 planned to dispose of Casalaspro\u2019s body by dismembering and pulverizing the pieces in a blender, starting with the head.<\/p>\n

He allegedly coldly confessed to cops at the NYPD\u2019s 120th precinct, telling them he committed the horrifying act because he wanted to know what it felt like to kill, according to law-enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see the kid all the time. He\u2019s not a troublemaker, he\u2019s not loud, he\u2019s not doing all the crazy things \u2026 it\u2019s shocking that all of a sudden, he turned into a monster,\u201d neighbor\u00a0David Chong told\u00a0The Post on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurstel is facing charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Chong said he saw the victim\u2019s longtime girlfriend,\u00a0Hurstel\u2019s mother,\u00a0come home Monday afternoon and run out of the family home on Cary Avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was screaming, \u2018He\u2019s dead,\u2019\u201d Chong recalled. \u201cShe\u2019s crying \u2026 I didn\u2019t know what to think. Then she called 911, and she was screaming, \u2018He\u2019s dead, he\u2019s dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The horror house where Hurstel carried out his alleged heinous crime was visited Wednesday by NYPD crime scene investigators, who donned HAZMAT suits as they milled inside and out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One carried an envelope from the sealed-off home.<\/p>\n

Hurstel faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, court papers state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His next court appearance is Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The twisted Staten Island teen\u00a0who allegedly decapitated his mom\u2019s boyfriend\u00a0remained hospitalized with a blood infection Wednesday \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[303,57,9,24,63,2442,134,136,135,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-2423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-stabbings","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}