Chilling details have begun to surface in the gruesome murder of a sanitation worker by his girlfriend’s son. A teenager from Staten Island, New York, allegedly beheaded his mother’s live-in boyfriend, Anthony Casalaspro, and placed the victim’s brain in a blender, according to police sources. The incident was reported from the family’s home in West Brighton, Staten Island.
Investigators said 19-year-old Damien Hurstel used a spoon to scoop up the victim’s remains after the killing. Authorities are still working to determine his motive as shocking details emerged from the crime scene.
A crime scene photo obtained by the New York Post showed the body of the 45-year-old victim with a plastic soup ladle placed on his torso and his severed head lying nearby with a spoon sticking out.
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When asked why he thought he was in the hospital after the murder, the boy said he thought he had gotten into a fight. He told his lawyer: “I think I might have fought two other people there. I remember punching one in the face, but I’m not sure if that happened. I don’t know if it’s something I’m imagining or if it really happened.”
After the incident, when his sister arrived at their home from school, the accused allegedly told his sister to “go to her room”.
Ignoring the warning, the girl followed the bloodstains on the floor and discovered the body of her mother’s boyfriend in the bathtub.
Then he asked her, “Do you want mother to live?”
“Are you going to hurt mommy?” his sister asked after seeing her blood soaked brother.
“Do you want her to live?” her brother, the defendant, asked her.
“Yes, please,” she said to her brother.
She then asked the accused if he could leave the bathroom. She took the opportunity to run outside, hide in the bushes and call her mother, who rushed home to Cary Avenue as NYPD officers worked the scene.
Although the boy has no criminal record, there have been reports that suggested he had some mental health issues – including schizophrenia.
