纽约皇后区Edgemere男子被控枪杀同居女友：拉车运尸至Rockaway海滩浅坟掩埋、两天后谎报失踪
纽约市皇后区检察官办公室10月28日宣布，住在纽约市皇后区 Edgemere 的26岁男子 Rogelio Lozano-Garita 当天在皇后区刑事法院过堂，被控二级谋杀等罪名。检方指控他枪杀35岁同居女友 Seraphina Pereira 后，用拉车把遗体运到 Rockaway Community Park 海滩浅坟掩埋，并报警谎称女友失踪。
据检方指控与调查，10月19日凌晨2时16分至6时04分之间，Lozano-Garita 在两人同住的住所内枪击 Pereira 头部致死。两人育有两名幼子，同住的还有 Pereira 与前任所生的一名孩子。
检方称，被告随后把遗体藏进一辆拉车，拖到 Rockaway Community Park 的海滩挖浅坟掩埋，再独自返回家中。两天后的10月21日，被告拨打911报警称女友失踪，并编造说法，声称有人把一个箱子放在其公寓楼下，箱内装有受害人财物和一张纸条，是一名冲浪者在海滩上捡到这些物品后送回的。
10月24日夜，纽约市警察局（NYPD）K9警犬队在该海滩搜出受害人遗骸。Lozano-Garita 被控二级谋杀、二级非法持有武器、藏匿尸体与篡改物证。法官 Thomas Wright-Fernandez 下令将其还押候审，本周五再出庭；若罪名成立，他最高面临25年至终身监禁。
皇后区检察官 Melinda Katz 表示，被告被指残忍杀害了自己孩子的母亲，并试图以拉车运尸、浅坟掩埋掩盖罪行，她感谢助理检察官与执法伙伴让这起命案得到追究。本案由该办公室凶杀局助理检察官 Eric Weinstein 主诉。检方提醒，刑事控诉只是指控，被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
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Queens Man Charged With Murdering Girlfriend: Body Wheeled to Rockaway Beach and Buried in Shallow Grave
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on October 28 that Rogelio Lozano-Garita, 26, of Edgemere, Queens, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence, in the shooting death of his girlfriend, 35-year-old Seraphina Pereira.
According to the charges and the investigation, between 2:16 a.m. and 6:04 a.m. on October 19, Lozano-Garita shot Pereira in the head inside the Edgemere home they shared with their two young children and Pereira's child from a previous relationship.
Prosecutors allege that he then concealed her body in a pull wagon, wheeled it to the beach at Rockaway Community Park and buried her in a shallow grave, returning home a short time later without the wagon. Two days later, on October 21, he called 911 to report Pereira missing, claiming that a box containing her belongings had been dropped off at his apartment building with a note from a surfer who said he had found the belongings on the beach.
Her remains were discovered on the night of October 24, after an NYPD K9 unit searched the beach. Queens Criminal Court Judge Thomas Wright-Fernandez remanded the defendant and ordered him to return to court on Friday. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
District Attorney Katz said the defendant allegedly mercilessly killed the mother of his children and tried to cover up the crime, and thanked her assistant district attorneys and law enforcement partners for ensuring accountability in the homicide. Assistant District Attorney Eric Weinstein of the Homicide Bureau is prosecuting the case. A criminal complaint is an accusation, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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图片来源：图：位于 Kew Gardens 的皇后区刑事法院大楼，被告在此过堂（标准建筑图）。照片：Tdorante10 摄，经 Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。 / Photo: Queens County Criminal Court in Kew Gardens, where the defendant was arraigned. Photo by Tdorante10, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
