纽约州18岁青年被裁定二级谋杀：四年前勒死14岁女友并抛尸莫霍克河
纽约州 Schenectady——纽约州一个陪审团11月2日裁定，现年18岁的 Raymond Wright Jr. 二级谋杀罪名成立。检方指控，他在2022年11月与同为14岁的女友 Samantha Humphrey 就她可能怀孕一事发生争执后将其勒死，并把遗体投入莫霍克河（Mohawk River）。
Humphrey 于2022年11月25日晚在 Schenectady 市 Stockade 社区的 Riverside Park 一带最后一次露面，此后失踪。约三个月后，她的遗体在莫霍克河中被发现。法医直到2025年5月才确认她的死因为勒杀，Wright 随后被逮捕并被起诉。
案件在斯克内克塔迪县法院审理约两周。检方出示了 DNA 证据、GPS 定位与通话记录，并指出 Wright 在 Humphrey 失踪的次日曾在网上搜索尸体在水中需要多久才会分解。副首席助理地方检察官 Christina Tremante-Pelham 对陪审团表示，Wright 始终无法解释案发当晚约一个半小时的空白。Wright 出庭作证时称，他只是打了 Humphrey 的鼻子并把她推进河里，离开时她还活着。庭审证据显示，Humphrey 生前曾在手机上搜索怀孕症状，但她是否怀孕始终没有得到证实。
陪审团经过约五小时评议后作出有罪裁定。Wright 犯案时年仅14岁，按未成年罪犯定罪，量刑听证定于2027年1月20日举行，他面临15年至终身监禁。Humphrey 的父亲 Jeff Humphrey 在宣判后对记者表示，家人四年来经历了希望、痛苦与怀疑，并说希望人们记得女儿从不畏惧。
New York Man, 18, Convicted of Second-Degree Murder for Strangling His 14-Year-Old Girlfriend in 2022 and Dumping Her Body in the Mohawk River
Schenectady, New York — A New York jury on November 2 convicted Raymond Wright Jr., now 18, of second-degree murder. Prosecutors said that in November 2022, when both were 14, Wright strangled his girlfriend Samantha Humphrey after an argument over her possible pregnancy and dumped her body in the Mohawk River.
Humphrey was last seen on the night of November 25, 2022, near Riverside Park in Schenectady's Stockade neighborhood. Her body was found in the Mohawk River about three months later. A medical examiner did not determine until May 2025 that she had died by strangulation, and Wright was arrested and charged shortly afterward.
During the roughly two-week trial in Schenectady County Court, prosecutors presented DNA evidence, GPS data and phone records, and said Wright had searched online the day after Humphrey disappeared for how long a body takes to come apart in water. Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Christina Tremante-Pelham told jurors that Wright was never able to account for a gap of about an hour and a half on the night Humphrey died. Wright testified that he had punched Humphrey in the nose and pushed her into the river but left her alive. Evidence showed Humphrey had searched for pregnancy symptoms on her phone, though it was never confirmed whether she was pregnant.
The jury deliberated for about five hours before returning the guilty verdict. Because Wright was 14 at the time of the killing, he was convicted as a juvenile offender and faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced on January 20, 2027. Humphrey's father, Jeff Humphrey, told reporters after the verdict that the family had been through hope, pain and doubt over four years, and that he wants people to remember his daughter as someone who did not live in fear.
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