This was a shocking and senseless act of violence that took the life of a pregnant woman and left a second woman with physical and emotional traumas she suffers to this day. Nothing will bring Savannah Rivera back, but I hope today's sentence brings a measure of solace to her family and friends. The defendant has now been brought to justice.
According to the evidence, on April 20, 2019, at approximately 1:35am, the defendant attacked his 21-year-old girlfriend and her friend Savannah Rivera, 20, with an axe inside his girlfriend's apartment in the Bushwick Houses on Flushing Avenue near Humboldt Street in East Williamsburg.
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