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Jersey City Heights man gets 31 years in prison for 2008 killing of friend
Updated: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 11:21 AM By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal  Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, 23, of Jersey City, listens through headphones as a Spanish-language interpreter translates the statements of the victim's relatives in court during his sentencing on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, for the stabbing death of Mark Kendall, 26, outside his home on Summit Avenue on Aug. 16, 2008. Jersey City man sentenced to 31 years in prison in hacking death of friend gallery The Jersey City Heights man convicted of murder in June in the brutal, bloody stabbing death of a Jersey City man outside Pershing Field in 2008 was sentenced Friday to 31 years in prison without the possibility of parole. Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, listening to a Spanish translation of the proceedings through headphones, remained stone-faced as Judge Joseph Isabella issued the sentence: 30 years for the stabbing death of Mark Kendell and 18 months for a weapons charge, to run consecutively. Four members of Kendell?s family made emotional pleas to the judge for a life sentence. Ilda Kendell, the victim?s mother, cried out in Spanish as she held a photo of her son to her chest. ?Why did that murderer have to take him away from me?? Kendell said, in Spanish. ?Why? Why? Why?? She added: ?I have lost my peace.? Prosecutors said Rodriguez-Ferreira was the victim?s friend, but that in the early morning hours of Aug. 16, 2008, he lured Kendell, 26, out of his Summit Avenue home and attacked him, slashing Kendell?s jugular vein, his diaphragm and his liver. Rodriguez-Ferreira then fled to the Dominican Republic, using a one-way ticket his family helped buy. When his mother and sister were charged with aiding his flight, he returned and was arrested on a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport five days after the crime. The motive for the vicious attack remains a mystery. Larry Kendell, the victim?s father, urged Rodriguez-Ferreira to say why he committed the ?violent, bloody, cowardly? killing. ?Anything less than a true explanation can only be described as yet another cowardly act in a series of cowardly acts,? he said. But when Isabella offered Rodriguez-Ferreira a chance to speak, the defendant declined. Isabella said he was bound by the law to sentence Rodriguez-Ferreira to 31 years instead of life in prison. Since the defendant?s crime was a first offense, he could not be sentenced any harsher, the judge said. ?I wish it could be more,? Isabella said, adding that he hopes Rodgriguez-Ferreira?s years in prison are ?torturous.? After the sentencing, Rodriguez-Ferreira, dressed in a dark green prison jumpsuit with his hands cuffed behind his back, was led out of the courtroom. He nodded at family members, who broke down sobbing as he exited.
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thank goodness they caught this waste of life.
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UPDATE: Bail set for murder suspect busted at airport
by Paul Koepp and Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal Friday August 22, 2008, 12:48 PM UPDATE: Bail has been set at $500,000 cash or bond for Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, the murder suspect who cops say fled to the Dominican Republic on Sunday and was busted getting off a plane at Newark Airport last night. Rodriguez-Ferreira appeared in Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City via video link from the Hudson County jail. Judge Richard Nieto informed him of his bail, which had actually been set earlier by Judge Paul DePascale. Rodriguez-Ferreira rubbed his eyes and appeared tired as he listened to the judge; he did not immediately post bail. posted at 11:20 a.m Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, the murder suspect who cops say fled to the Dominican Republic on Sunday, was busted getting off a plane at Newark Airport last night, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio told The Jersey Journal this morning. Rodriguez-Ferreira, 21, is accused in the brutal, bloody stabbing death of 26-year-old Mark Kendall, who was killed outside his Summit Avenue home in the Jersey City Heights early Saturday morning. Rodriguez-Ferreira, who cops say had a beef with Kendall, is at the Hudson County Jail in Kearny and is due to be arraigned via videolink at the Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City this afternoon. Rodriguez-Ferreira also lives on Summit Avenue. His mother and sister have been charged with helping him escape.
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i hope they're able to hunt him down and bring him back to the US to stand trial... at least they're taking steps in the right direction
--- Cops: Stabbing suspect's mom, sis helped him flee U.S. by The Jersey Journal Thursday August 21, 2008, 4:31 AM The mother and sister of the man charged in the vicious stabbing murder of a Jersey City Heights man have been charged with hindering apprehension for allegedly helping him flee the country after the killing, officials said. "They provided transportation for him to the airport, made the arrangements for his escape -- his flight to the Dominican Republic --including paying for the same," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday of the relatives of accused killer Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira. On Sunday, Rodriguez-Ferreira, 21, of Summit and Manhattan avenues, was charged with murdering Mark Kendall, 26, of Summit and Carlton avenues. Kendall was found with multiple stab wounds -- the most serious to his neck and left arm -- lying between parked cars outside his home at about 5:45 a.m., DeFazio said. By the time a warrant was issued for Rodriguez-Ferreira's arrest Sunday night, the Dominican national had already hopped a flight back to his country from Kennedy Airport, DeFazio said. The mother and sister, whose names have not been released, were arrested Tuesday night and are being held in the Hudson County jail in Kearny, DeFazio said. Read all about it in today's Jersey Journal.
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TEARS FOR VICTIM
DeFazio: 'Killer' had help; machete found Wednesday, August 20, 2008 By MICHAELANGELO CONTE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A machete was found Monday night near the spot where a Jersey City Heights man was brutally murdered on Saturday and police have confirmed the accused killer has fled the country, perhaps with the help of others, officials said yesterday. "It appears, certainly, that he had some sort of aid in arranging leaving the U.S.," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said of accused murderer Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, 21, of Summit Avenue. "He enlisted help in arranging the flight, paying for the flight . The hindering (apprehension) aspect of this case is continuing." Rodriguez-Ferreira is charged in the savage stabbing death of Mark Kendall, 26, also of Summit Avenue, whose body was found between two parked cars in front of his home around 5:45 a.m. Saturday. Blood was also found across Summit Avenue on the Pershing Field side of the road, DeFazio said. A knife with "a relatively long, curved blade" was found between the murder scene and Rodriguez-Ferreira's home after the killing. But on Monday, a 17-inch-long machete was found by a resident in a recycling container next door to Rodriguez-Ferreira's home, DeFazio said. Jersey City police turned it over to county homicide detectives who will see if blood can be detected on it, and try to determine if it is pertinent to the case, DeFazio said. Homicide detectives also confirmed Rodriguez-Ferreira, who is a Dominican national, fled the country on a flight to the Dominican Republic that departed Sunday morning from Kennedy Airport in New York City, DeFazio said. A warrant for his arrest was issued Sunday night after a search of his home. DeFazio said Kendall received phone calls shortly before leaving his home the morning he was murdered, but declined to say who investigators believe Kendall spoke with. "We do believe there is a relationship between the phone calls made that morning and the incident," he said. Neighbors said they heard Kendall's mother screaming in the street after the body was discovered. "It was a viscous attack and he (Kendall) had severe injuries to his neck area and to his left arm, plus other (stab) wounds to various part of his body," DeFazio said. Kendall was pronounced dead at the scene. His funeral Mass was held across Pershing Field at St. Nicholas Church yesterday morning. Rodriguez-Ferreira is the only person charged in the murder, but investigators have not eliminated the possibility that he did not act alone, DeFazio said. Anyone with information on the murder or the whereabouts of Rodriguez-Ferreira is asked to call the Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.
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That makes it worse - If he was just a victim of a random crime, he would be stripped of all valuables. This jewelry left behind suggests it was personal, which suggests nothing he could have offered or done would have lead to a different fate...and only drugs or some sort of serious crime would have a result like that .........101 Law and Order episode ! It is sad, but I think he might have known he did someone wrong.
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i highly doubt mark was a gang member. he was never really the gang type, more like a quiet class clown who slipped a quick one that made you laugh every time. there is obviously more to this story and it was more than well planned if the scumbag who did him in was able to flee the country. i hope for marks friends and family that this was not drug related. it it were, why did mark still have his jewelry and money on him at the time they found him?
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5am to go out for cigarettes ... or was that drugs ! All sounds less like a simple dispute and more like a serious illegal (possible drug) agreement gone bad.
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Go to this link and and see why your making stupid generalizations. http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/international/index.html
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I'm not saying it is gang related and the killer is Dominican not Latin American but the machete is pretty weird.
 MARA SALVATRUCHA MS-13 is a machete-wielding Latin American group that has been assigned its own special task force. ?In El Salvador [where it originated], the machete is an acceptable weapon,? says Grascia. The gang has members in Corona, Jamaica, Flushing, and the Rockaways in Queens; the Parkchester and Woodhaven sections of the Bronx; and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. http://67.208.32.41/newyork/articles/ ... k/27840/gangs-of-new-york
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I disagree and I didn't know what you meant. Most of these cases are not high profile. The Serbian guy recently, another Dominican guy years back, Middle Easterns. These are worldwide incidents. The puzzle is much more challenging outside of the United States border.
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Police: machete might have been used in Pershing Field killing
by Michaelangelo Conte Tuesday August 19, 2008, 2:41 PM A machete was found last night near the location where a Jersey City Heights man was brutally murdered Saturday and police have confirmed that the accused killer has fled the country, perhaps with the help of others, officials said today. "It appears, certainly, that he had some sort of aid in arranging leaving the U.S.," said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio of accused murderer Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, 21, of Summit Avenue. "He enlisted help in arranging the flight, paying for the flight...The hindering (apprehension) aspect of this case is continuing." Rodriguez-Ferreira is charged in the savage stabbing death of Mark Kendall, 26, also of Summit Avenue, who was found lying between two parked cars in front of his home around 5:45 a.m. Saturday, DeFazio said. Blood was also found across Summit Avenue on the Pershing Field side of the street. A knife with "a relatively long, curved blade" was found between the murder scene and Rodriguez-Ferreira's nearby home after the killing, but a machete was found next door to the residence yesterday, DeFazio said. The machete was found outside, in a trash receptacle. Jersey City police turned it over to county homicide detectives who will see if blood can be detected on it, and try to determine if it is pertinent to the case, DeFazio said. Homicide detectives have also confirmed that Rodriguez-Ferreira, who is a Dominican national, fled the country on a flight to the Dominican Republic that departed Sunday morning from Kennedy Airport in New York City, DeFazio said. A warrant for his arrest was issued Sunday night after a search of his home. DeFazio said Kendall received phone calls shortly before leaving his home the morning he was murdered. "We do believe there is a relationship between the phone calls made that morning and the incident," he said. The prosecutor would not say who placed the calls. Neighbors said they heard Kendall's mother screaming in the street after the body was discovered. "It was a viscous attack and he had severe injuries to his neck area and to his left arm, plus other (stab) wounds to various part of his body," DeFazio said. Kendall was pronounced dead at the scene. Rodriguez-Ferreira is the only person charged in the murder but investigators have not eliminated the possibility that he did not act alone, DeFazio said. Anyone with information on the murder or whereabouts of Rodriguez-Ferreira is asked to call the Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.
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heights, save your generalizations and jumping to conclusions for someone else; you know what i meant. it's just as easy for an american national to commit a crime (murder or what have you), and leave the state and never be heard from again. you'll have local enforcement looking for him and unless it's a high profile case and the feds get involved, there's little chance of anyone finding him if he moves to cali or alaska.
and to your sock puppet, did you really just compare catching a 21 year old dominican man to catching the most wanted terrorist in the world? really? i mean i guess since they're both foreigners hiding in their home country, they are similar, making them both hard to catch. or it could be that bin laden has billions of dollars and terrorist cells with more technology than our undermanned military presence has to help him hide. you know, one or the other.
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Regulator probably thought I was being prejudiced. I guess we should stifle our facts and opinions, or we could join the insurance companies they can base their determinations on anything. I hope I can still fly the American flag unless that will insult immigrants living here.
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Regualtor- it shocks me that you even ask the question. a person with family and friends in another country has a much better chance of being protected and hidden from authorities than a person with no ties.
If this werent the case we would have gotten bin laden long ago.
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Because American citizens are not foreigners. They don't have a native/mother country to flee to.
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heights, how is that any different from an American citizen committing a crime and fleeing the country?
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While I did not know this young man, my heart still goes out to his family and his child.
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we went to grammar school and college with mark. he was a good guy and he didn't deserve any of this - nobody does. hopfully they catch whoever did this!
RIP mark. we'll miss you.
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i hope the guy that killed him rots in hell.
...and there is a tiger mart on laidlaw/jfk blvd which is a really short walk from where mark lived.
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As far as I know, the only place in that neighborhood where you can buy cigarettes is the Stop n Shop - and that doesn't open til 6:30 in the morning. If there was bad blood between him and others, perhaps they lured him out and ambushed him?
A terrible story.... My sympathy to the family.
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DID A DISPUTE LEAD TO KNIFING DEATH?
Neighborhood wakes to mom's screaming where son lay dead Monday, August 18, 2008 By CHARLES HACK JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A 26-year-old Jersey City college student and father was stabbed to death early Saturday morning in a bloody attack just steps from his Summit Avenue home, officials said. Mark Kendall was found with multiple stab wounds over his body including severe ones to his neck and left arm, lying between parked cars outside his home across the street from Pershing Field around 5:45 a.m., authorities said. Kendall was pronounced dead at the scene. Police aren't sure how many persons were involved in the attack, which may have been part of an ongoing dispute, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio. "We are working on it and hopefully we are going to make a positive identification of at least one of the actors shortly," DeFazio said yesterday. Investigators recovered a knife from the scene but have not yet determined if it was the murder weapon, DeFazio said. Authorities believe Kendall, who lived with his mother and other family members, was attacked shortly after he left the house around 5 a.m. to buy a pack of cigarettes. DeFazio said the exact location of the stabbing has not been determined. There was a trail of blood near the Pershing Field ice rink, he said. Jahaira Vasquez, a close friend from the neighborhood who stopped by a small shrine yesterday on the steps of Kendall's home, described Kendall as an entrepreneur always looking at ways to improve himself. "He was a good person. He didn't deserve this to happen to him," Vasquez said. "He loved his daughter dearly. It's sad." His daughter Mariya is 3 years old. Kendall had attended New Jersey City University and is a former student at Saint Peter's Prep. He was born in Hoboken and grew up in Jersey City. Neighbors said they were awoken when they heard Kendall's mother screaming after the body was discovered. The victim's father declined to speak to the press. The Prosecutor's Office Homicide Squad and the Jersey City police are conducting an investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.
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wow, i went to grammar school with him. that totally sucks.
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Authorities hunt suspect after fatal Jersey City stabbing
by Leslie Kowh/The Star-Ledger Saturday August 16, 2008, 4:44 PM Investigators are searching for a suspect after a 26-year-old man was stabbed to death early today in Jersey City near Pershing Field, authorities said. The victim, Mark Kendall, was found with stab wounds in his neck, arms and torso outside his Summit Avenue home around 5:45 a.m., authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "There was an extraordinary amount of blood," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said. "There's a blood trail. We're going to try to trace that." Investigators were searching the area for a male assailant, he said. Authorities believe Kendall, who lived with his mother and family members, was attacked shortly after he left the house around 5 a.m. to buy a pack of cigarettes. The assailant was probably an acquaintance, DeFazio said, and the attack may have been part of an ongoing dispute between the two men. The Prosecutor's Office Homicide Squad and the Jersey City police are conducting an investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.
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