PARKING RAGE LEADS TO GRANDFATHER’S DEATH
Gjok Deda Indicted in Killing of Ronald Antonucci
(Bronx, NY – April 21, 2015) – Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announces the Supreme Court arraignment of GJOK DEDA (pron: ZH-AWK DAY-dah) in the death of his downstairs neighbor, 68-year-old RONALD ANTONUCCI, in the parking lot of the apartment building they lived in at 1110 Stadium Avenue in the Country Club section of the Bronx.
DEDA, who will turn 41 years old later this week, pled not guilty before Supreme Court Justice George Villegas, to the single charge of Manslaughter in the 1st Degree, a Class-B Felony.
The row between the two men occurred in the early morning hours of March 19th, 2015, when DEDA allegedly became enraged because ANTONUCCI was backing out of a parking space he felt was too close to him and his daughters. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound DEDA is accused of repeatedly punching the older and much smaller 5-foot-8 and 156-pound ANTONUCCI in the head. ANTONUCCI died shortly after from what the medical examiner described as multiple blunt force trauma to the head.
If convicted of the charges, GJOK DEDA faces up to 25 years behind bars, and deportation to his home country of Albania. The charges in this indictment are merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The case against GJOK DEDA has been adjourned to July 13, 2015 in Part 77, before Justice William Mogulescu, Bronx Supreme Court, 265 E. 161st Street. It is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Erin Kelsh of Trial Bureau 20/50.
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