{"id":2705,"date":"2025-10-15T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2705\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:54:10","slug":"cops-were-called-to-staten-island-horror-house-repeatedly-on-domestic-violence-calls-before-shock-decapitation-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2705\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops were called to Staten Island horror house repeatedly on domestic violence calls before shock decapitation: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A batch of desperate pleas for help repeatedly drew cops to a Staten Island horror house in the years before twisted teen Damien Hurstel allegedly decapitated his mom\u2019s boyfriend<\/a> inside the abode, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The gorily dismembered beau \u2014 45-year-old city Department of Sanitation worker Anthony Casalaspro \u2014 had been listed as the alleged perpetrator in at least five domestic violence-related 911 calls<\/a> from the West Brighton home starting in 2021, sources revealed.<\/p>\n

In the most recent report in 2023, sources said Casalaspro allegedly drunkenly attacked Hurstel before slapping the teen\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n

A 45-year-old city sanitation worker \u2014 who was allegedly decapitated by his girlfriend\u2019s son \u2014 had been listed as the perpetrator in at least five domestic violence calls from the West Brighton home starting in 2021, sources revealed. Facebook\/Gabriella Ali Zayas<\/p>\n

The alleged attack unfolded after cops had told the aggressively inebriated man to leave the home earlier that day, only to have him return, according to sources.<\/p>\n

Neighbors on the tree-lined street also recounted witnessing distressing incidents spilling out of the Cary Avenue home, including one in which Hurstel\u2019s mother suffered a broken leg.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was screaming,\u201d a neighbor, who asked to remain unnamed, recalled Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI never heard anyone scream like that. She was on the ground, her leg was bent the wrong way. I said, \u2018Do you want me to call 911?\u2019 (The boyfriend) said, \u2018No, you\u2019re fine, you\u2019re fine.’\u201d<\/p>\n

During the first alleged domestic violence incident<\/a> in 2021, the mother told cops her boyfriend was drunkenly breaking things in their home and had a handgun, which was never found, sources said.<\/p>\n

Casalaspro \u2014 who was forced to go on disability because of severe vision loss, a close friend said \u2014 also had a criminal record going back to 2000, when he was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs, according to sources.<\/p>\n

Anthony Casalaspro, 45, was the alleged perpetrator in at least five domestic violence-related 911 calls from the West Brighton home starting in 2021. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

The most recent attack came in 2023 when Casalaspro allegedly drunkenly attacked Damien Hurstel before slapping the teen\u2019s mom. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

His other offenses included possessing a gravity knife in 2015 and a 2020 assault and reckless driving incident, sources said.<\/p>\n

The troubled Hurstel was also the subject of mental health calls to the home, sources said. <\/p>\n

His mother had told 911 operators that he threatened suicide going back to 2022 and once cut his hands multiple times, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

Hurstel\u2019s mother and other family members declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A batch of desperate pleas for help repeatedly drew cops to a Staten Island horror house in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[303,3290,2441,57,9,24,63,103,134,136,135,58],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-mental-illness","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","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=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}