By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-13 20:52:48 | Updated at 2025-01-17 14:53:07
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A 25-year-old woman with a lengthy rap sheet surrendered alongside a celebrity attorney Monday over the fatal stabbing of a Staten Island mom who was trying to protect her 12-year-old daughter, authorities and sources said.
Jasmin Thompson was joined by Mario Gallucci — who goes by the moniker “Mr. Acquittal” on X — when she turned herself in to face a murder charge at Staten Island’s 120 Precinct around 9:40 a.m. in connection to the Tuesday social media-fueled slaying of Jennira Roundtree, 43, outside the victim’s apartment building within NYCHA’s West Brighton Houses, cops and sources said.
She also faces charges for manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Thompson’s rap sheet includes six prior arrests — mostly for assaults between 2018 and 2019 — as well as chjarges for petit larceny and reckless endangerment, sources said.
She was also busted while in lockup in 2023 for a contraband-related offense, the sources added.
Thompson knifed Roundtree multiple times in her chest during a social media-fueled melee outside the public housing building on Henderson Avenue near Alaska Street, authorities and sources said.
The brawl involved about 20 girls — mostly young teens who were joined by an adult now determined to be Thompson, cops and sources said.
Roundtree entered the fracas to defend her young daughter – but then became the target, the sources said.
After suffering multiple stab wounds, she was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where she died, according to police.
Roundtree’s friends had initially called the young girl’s older sister for help, but the quick-acting mother got involved, one neighbor told The Daily News.
The neighbor said scaffolding obstructed her view of the mayhem, but she heard what happened. She ran downstairs and already saw officers helping remove Roundtree from the scene.
“The police took her,” she said. “When they carried her, I saw she had a lot of blood. I heard her say, ‘I can’t breathe!’ That’s the only thing she said.”
Gallucci – who rose to fame by repping defendants in high-profile violent crimes, and later, through the USA Network TV show “Partners in Crime” — did not immediately return a phone call from The Post.
He and his partner “Big Lou” Gelormino have made a business taking on infamous cases such as Eric Bellucci’s murder of his parents inside their home in October 2010.
Bellucci later called himself the “Son of Sam,” a reference to the Big Apple serial killer in the 1970s, and threatened to shoot Gallucci if he pursued an insanity defense for him, the Staten Island Advance reported.
He also represented Michael Cammarata, the estranged husband of a missing Staten Island schoolteacher who prosecutors say teamed up with his six-month pregnant girlfriend to kill his wife, burn her body and hide it in a storage locker in 2019.
Just last year, Gallucci represented Christopher Gregor, 31, the New Jersey dad convicted of killing his 6-year-old son by forcing him into a bruising treadmill workout.
