Rasheen Everett of Lower Manhattan, during his original trial in Queens Supreme Court in 2013, was convicted of murder for the second time on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of strangling a Glendale transgender woman in her Glendale apartment in 2010.
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A Manhattan man was convicted of murder for strangling a transgender woman to death in her Glendale apartment and then tampering with physical evidence in 2010 for the second time.
Rasheen Everett, 43, of Jefferson Street in Lower Manhattan, was originally tried and found guilty in 2013. That conviction was reversed due to a judicial error of the trial judge in 2021.
His retrial openings began on Sept. 18, and closings occurred on Oct. 2. Everett was found guilty on Thursday in Queens Supreme Court of murder in the second degree, burglary, and tampering with physical evidence following a two-week jury trial.
The jury deliberated for approximately one hour before reaching the guilty verdict.
“We are determined to seek justice for the victims and their loved ones, no matter how much time passes,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.
According to trial records, on the morning of March 27, 2010, Everett entered the apartment of the victim, Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar, located on 62nd Street in Glendale. Several minutes after he entered the apartment, the victim’s upstairs neighbors heard screams and loud banging, consistent with a struggle. Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood were called to the location, but no one answered the door when the officers tried to gain entry.
Approximately eighteen hours later, just after 3 a.m., Everett was seen on video surveillance exiting the apartment by himself while carrying two bags. The bags were later discovered to contain the victim’s camera, keys, laptop, suitcase, coat, and cell phone.
Three days later, at around 4 p.m. on March 30, 2010, concerned family members entered the apartment and found…
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