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Chanel Lewis Found Guilty of Queens Jogger Karina Vetrano’s Murder

Vetrano was found strangled and sexually abused in a park in 2016.

Chanel Lewis was found guilty on all counts of the 2016 murder of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano, after his first trial ended in a hung jury. According to local news station WABC, Lewis was charged with “two counts of murder and a single count of sexual abuse” after Vetrano’s body was found Spring Creek Park. She had been beaten, strangled, and sexually assaulted. The jury at Lewis’ first trial in November was unable to reach an unanimous verdict. At his retrial, his defense filed a motion for mistrial after the Legal Aid Society received an anonymous letter that said Lewis had been caught in the police’s “race-biased dragnet.” The letter went on to accuse the police of collecting the DNA of 360 black men in Queens and Brooklyn while they searched for a suspect, which led them to Lewis. The judge denied the defense’s motion after prosecutors said the letter had “no verifiable information.”

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