GUILTY NY - Concetta Russo-Carriero, 56, slain, White Plains, 29 June 2005

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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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A homeless black man who stabbed a white woman to death, saying that he wanted to start a race war, was sentenced on Monday to 25 years to life in prison, the maximum imposed on a charge of murder as a hate crime...

On June 29, 2005, according to court testimony, he crouched in a stairwell at a garage, by the Galleria shopping mall in White Plains, and waited until he spotted his victim, Concetta Russo-Carriero, a 56-year-old paralegal walking alone to her car during a lunch break. He plunged a steak knife into her chest twice and so deeply that the blade cut through her heart.

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