mysteriew
07-01-2005, 07:57 AM
The suspect in the killing of a 56-year-old woman at a shopping mall garage is a homeless convicted rapist who was being bused every day between White Plains and a Westchester County overnight shelter, officials said yesterday.
Phillip Grant, 43, was charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession in Wednesday's knife attack on Concetta Russo, 56, on the seventh level of the city-owned parking garage at the Galleria mall. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 25 years to life in prison.
The middle-of-the-day killing prompted worry about the safety of the mall -- "where our daughters go to park and shop," Pirro said -- and was quickly worked into at least two political campaigns because of Grant's 1980 conviction for a Bronx rape and his status as a high-level sex offender.
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Phillip Grant, 43, was charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession in Wednesday's knife attack on Concetta Russo, 56, on the seventh level of the city-owned parking garage at the Galleria mall. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 25 years to life in prison.
The middle-of-the-day killing prompted worry about the safety of the mall -- "where our daughters go to park and shop," Pirro said -- and was quickly worked into at least two political campaigns because of Grant's 1980 conviction for a Bronx rape and his status as a high-level sex offender.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-1/112019572794100.xml&coll=1