Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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Man Sentenced For Morningside Heights Double Murder 30 Years Ago: Manhattan DA
A man was sentenced Thursday for a shocking double murder three decades ago that claimed the lives of a Morningside Heights woman and her special-needs daughter, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday.
ICYMI: D.A. Bragg Urges Comprehensive, Nationwide Action To Combat 3D Printed Guns In USA Today Op-Ed
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging a comprehensive, nationwide approach to address the widening threat of 3D printed guns. These weapons are readily available through what D.A. Bragg describes as the “kitchen table pipeline,” and bad actors are manufacturing fully operable firearms at home for just a few hundred dollars.
Manhattan DA Bragg: We must confront deadly threat of 3D printed guns
My office has prioritized prosecuting those manufacturing and selling homemade guns. We have announced several indictments and prison sentences for those who have made, sold and trafficked these weapons.
NYC judge rips cold case killer at sentencing for 1994 murders of mom, daughter – as lowlife whines he’ll die in prison
Ailing ex-con Larry Atkinson, 67, predicted he has two years to live moments before Judge Althea Drysdale sentenced him to 40 years to life behind bars for the killings of Sarah Roberts, 57, and her developmentally disabled daughter Sharon, 23, who were found strangled to death inside NYCHA’s Grant Houses on Feb. 20, 1994.
Decades later, convicted killer of Harlem mother and daughter sentenced to 40 years
The steep term was handed down to Larry Atkinson, 67, following his October conviction at trial on two counts of second-degree murder for fatally strangling Sarah Roberts, 57, and her 25-year-old daughter Sharon inside their Grant Houses apartment on W. 125th St. on Feb. 20, 1994.
D.A. Bragg: Larry Atkinson Sentenced For 1994 Murder Of Mother And Daughter
“We are resolute in our commitment to solving homicides and providing justice to victims and their families, no matter how long it takes,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Thirty years after strangling Sarah Roberts and her daughter Sharon, Larry Atkinson stands convicted by a jury of two counts of murder and will serve decades in prison. Thanks to the skill of our prosecutors and the dogged work of our partners at OCME and the NYPD, there is finally closure for this horrific crime.”
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