The twisted teenager who allegedly beheaded his mother’s boyfriend in Staten Island scooped the sufferer’s brains out with a spoon and put them in a blender, police sources stated.
It wasn’t clear what Damien Hurstel meant to do with the grey matter, which was discovered within the kitchen equipment on the scene, the sources stated.
Cops stated the 19-year-old confessed to stabbing his mom’s live-in boyfriend, Anthony Casalaspro and sawing off his head contained in the household’s Cary Avenue residence in West Brighton on Oct. 6.
The 45-year-old sufferer’s stays have been discovered with a plastic soup ladle on the torso, and his head beside him with a spoon protruding, a photograph obtained by The Publish confirmed.
Hurstel, who’s dealing with second-degree homicide, manslaughter and weapons fees, was transferred from a hospital to solitary confinement in Rikers Island jail earlier this week, stated his lawyer Mark Fonte, who met his shopper in a room Friday earlier than a listening to in Richmond County Supreme Courtroom.
“It was chilling,” Fonte stated of assembly the teenager in particular person.
“He was having an actual troublesome time separating fantasy from actuality,” stated Fonte, who entered a not responsible by cause of madness plea. “He wasn’t certain what actually occurred.”
Fonte requested the teenager why he ended up going to the hospital after his arrest and Herstel stated he thought he had been in a struggle.
“’I feel I might need fought two different individuals in there,’ ” Fonte recalled his shopper telling him. “ ‘I keep in mind punching one within the face however I’m not likely certain that occurred. I don’t know if that’s like one thing I’m imagining, or if it actually occurred.’ ”
Herstel additionally wasn’t certain if he was taking medicine at Rikers, the lawyer stated.
{The teenager} confirmed his sister the bloody scene within the household’s rest room after he beheaded Casalaspro and requested the 16-year-old if she needed their mom to dwell, mother Alicia Zayas, 39, solely advised The Publish.
“She stated, ‘Are you gonna damage mother?’ ” Zayas stated of her 16-year-old daughter Bri’s encounter together with her blood-soaked son.
“And he stated, ‘Would you like her to dwell?’
“And he or she stated, ‘Sure, please.’
The sister then requested if she might depart the household’s rest room and ran outdoors to name her mother and warn her.
Hurstel began having hallucinations when he was 13 and drew photos to point out his mother the horrific scenes he was seeing, she stated.
That’s when he first went on antipsychotic medicine, she stated.
Zayas monitored Hurstel’s situation by means of his teenage years, however as soon as he reached 18 she was shut out, the mother stated.
Docs at Richmond College Medical Heart modified Hurstel’s medicine in January with out notifying her, stated Zayas, who claimed her son went downhill after the change.
The medical heart stated it doesn’t disclose details about sufferers or the care they obtain.
