Jul 18, 2012 10:31 AM
Nearly three months after killing a cab driver with a single punch to the head during an altercation, a Hampton Bays man will face an assault charge—instead of manslaughter, the charge sought by the Suffolk County district attorney’s office—after a grand jury declined to indict him on the more serious count last week.
Kenneth J. Tofty-Forrest, 27, landed a single punch to the head of Four Ones Taxi driver Robert Levasseur just after 2 p.m. on April 21 in the Chase Bank parking lot near the 7-Eleven convenience store on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, sending the cab driver into a coma. The 53-year-old Riverhead resident died five days later at the Stony Brook University Medical Center. The cause of death was later determined to be blunt force trauma.
Mr. Tofty-Forrest was... more
Kenneth J. Tofty-Forrest, 27, landed a single punch to the head of Four Ones Taxi driver Robert Levasseur just after 2 p.m. on April 21 in the Chase Bank parking lot near the 7-Eleven convenience store on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, sending the cab driver into a coma. The 53-year-old Riverhead resident died five days later at the Stony Brook University Medical Center. The cause of death was later determined to be blunt force trauma.
Mr. Tofty-Forrest was... more
noun
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Fail.... NYS doesn't have the death penalty as an option, if it did this case would fall far short of meeting the criteria for it to be implemented. As for cost it is hard to determine which is more economical and varies case to case. As I stated earlier the punch was dead on, although it being a "sucker punch" does detract from the chivalric influence.....
A drunk Corrections Officer kills a Hispanic man & it's nothing.
A punk sucker punches a Cabbie from behind, he dies and it's nothing.
Now, I don't like the Cabbies either but there are some interesting standards around here.