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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Opening statements got under way Monday in trial of Chanel Lewis accused in the murder of jogger Karina Vetrano who was killed while out jogging in a park in Queens NY, on Aug 2, 2016 </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Karina&#8217;s mother, Cathie, sobbed and clutched a cross as prosecutor described her daughter&#8217;s killing &#8211; </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>how the 30-year-old was thrown to the ground, violently raped and strangled in a marsh during her final moments</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The alleged killer&#8217;s mother, Veta Lewis, was also in court, wearing a red dress </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Lewis, 21, is on trial for allegedly grabbing Vetrano on a jog in a Park in Queens, NY, sexually assaulting and strangling her </span> </strong></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Then 20-year-old Chanel lewis became a suspect in the murder after cops linked him to DNA found on victim’s body and phone</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>NYPD arrested Lewis in slaying of Karina Vetrano after cops tracked him with familial DNA found on victim</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police had been using CCTV footage of the victim’s last moments to hunt down her killer</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lewis who lives with his mother in Brooklyn, NY was flagged three times for summonses around the park before the murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Arraigned on murder and sexual assault charges, Sunday after DNA recovered from her body and phone linked him to the crime </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Authorities believed they had a ‘solid case’ against Lewis who allegedly, offered “detailed incriminating statements and admissions”</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>“This defendant admitted to attacking the victim, admitted to beating her, to strangling her and dragging her body into the weeds” – Queens ADA, Michael Curtis said </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lewis has has recanted his confession and his defense lost a motion to exclude that confession and DNA evidence from the trial</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Karina mom Cathie Vetrano, at the time lashed out at the alleged killer – <span class="article__kicker theme__copy-color">‘The demon [Lewis] must get his Justice’</span> </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos3.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;resize=620%2C324&;ssl=1" alt="chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos3" />Suspect Chanel Lewis was tracked by investigators with the aid of familial DNA testing, leading to a confession has now recanted. His trial murder of Karina Vetrano began Monday Nov., 5. He has recanted his confession and his defense lost a motion to exclude the confession and DNA evidence</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Opening statements got under way Monday morning in the trial of a man accused of killing Queens jogger Karina Vetrano two years ago.<br />
A jury made up of eight women and four men is hearing the case of murder suspect Chanel Lewis.<br />
Lewis, 21, is charged with sexually assaulting and strangling Karina Vetrano as she ran on a secluded park trail in Howard Beach, Queens, New york in August 2016.</p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">The court proceedings was attended by two mothers representing divergent interests. Cathie Vetrano, the mother of murder victim Karina Vetrano, accompanied by her family was seen arriving in Queens Supreme Court on the first day of the trial against Chanel Lewis, whose mother, Veta Lewis , was also in attendance accompanied by Rev Kevin McCall and New York State Assemblyman Charles Barron.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Karina Vetrano was 30 years old when in August 2016 she went out for a jog near her home in Queens, from which she never returned.<br />
Six months later, police arrested then 20-year-old Chanel Lewis in connection to the jogger&#8217;s death</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Karina&#8217;s mother, Cathie Vetrano, was seen sobbing and clutching a cross as Queens Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal described in graphic detail her daughter&#8217;s final violent moments, reported <a class="class" href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Karina-Vetrano-Howard-Beach-Jogger-Killed-New-York-City-Trial-Chanel-Lewis-499612681.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NBC New York.</a><br />
<strong>Related: </strong><a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/21/chanel-lewis-man-accused-of-killing-queens-jogger-karina-vetrano-asked-cop-to-tell-my-mother-im-sorry-just-after-his-arrest-defense-challenge-killers-confession/" rel="bookmark">Chanel Lewis, man accused of killing Queens jogger Karina Vetrano, asked cop to ‘tell my mother I’m sorry’ just after his arrest – defense challenge killers confession</a><a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/21/chanel-lewis-man-accused-of-killing-queens-jogger-karina-vetrano-asked-cop-to-tell-my-mother-im-sorry-just-after-his-arrest-defense-challenge-killers-confession/"><img class="attachment-loop wp-post-image alignleft" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?resize=174%2C131&;ssl=1" sizes="(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?resize=174%2C131&;ssl=1 174w, https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?resize=300%2C225&;ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?resize=70%2C53&;ssl=1 70w" alt="" width="58" height="44" data-attachment-id="285771" data-permalink="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/21/chanel-lewis-man-accused-of-killing-queens-jogger-karina-vetrano-asked-cop-to-tell-my-mother-im-sorry-just-after-his-arrest-defense-challenge-killers-confession/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2-2/" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?fit=398%2C264&;ssl=1" data-orig-size="398,264" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{";aperture";:";0";,";credit";:";";,";camera";:";";,";caption";:";";,";created_timestamp";:";0";,";copyright";:";";,";focal_length";:";0";,";iso";:";0";,";shutter_speed";:";0";,";title";:";";,";orientation";:";0";}" data-image-title="chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?fit=300%2C199&;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/chanel-lewis-accused-of-killing-karina-vetranos2.png?fit=398%2C264&;ssl=1" /></a><br />
<strong>Queens jogger Karina Vetrano’s accused killer asked cop to ‘tell my mother I’m sorry’ just after his arrest Vetrano, 30, was raped and strangled as</strong> <a title="Chanel Lewis, man accused of killing Queens jogger Karina Vetrano, asked cop to ‘tell my mother I’m sorry’ just after his arrest – defense challenge killers confession" href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/21/chanel-lewis-man-accused-of-killing-queens-jogger-karina-vetrano-asked-cop-to-tell-my-mother-im-sorry-just-after-his-arrest-defense-challenge-killers-confession/">[&#8230;]</a></p>
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<div class="mh-excerpt"><strong>Jogger Karina Vetrano, unarmed and alone, was brutally beaten and killed for because suspect had a murderous mid-day meltdown Chanel Lewis, 20, told police he ‘just</strong> <a title="Revealed! Accused killer Chanel Lewis says he ‘just lost it’ when he ran into jogger Karina Vetrano in confession to police" href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/04/18/revealed-accused-killer-chanel-lewis-says-he-just-lost-it-when-he-ran-into-jogger-karina-vetrano-in-confession-to-police/">[&#8230;]</a></div>
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<div>The prosecutor told the court in his opening statement that the 30-year-old runner was accosted and grabbed as she jogged along Spring Creek Park on August 2, 2016.<br />
Vetrano was punched in the face, thrown to the ground, violently raped and then strangled in a marsh, about a block away from her house, where her father, Philip Vetrano, would later find her body.<br />
Authorities previously said that the victim desperately fought for her life until the very end.</div>
<h6><img class="" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/karina-vetrano_s-last-moments-were-captured-on-cctv.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;resize=620%2C349&;ssl=1" alt="karina-vetranos-last-moments-were-captured-on-cctv" width="709" height="399" /><strong>Final shot: When she was last seen alive, this screenshot captured Karina Vetrano jogging along Spring Creek Park on August 2, 2016, a short time before her rape and strangulation</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Lewis was arrested and charged in connection to Vetrano&#8217;s murder six months later.<br />
Despite making a videotaped confession, in which he allegedly admitted to killing Vetrano, saying he was mad at his neighbor when he spotted her at random and snapped, Lewis has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and aggravated sex abuse.<br />
In February, a judge decided to let DNA evidence and a videotaped confession be used at trial.</p>
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<h6><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/crime-scene-police-activity-at-the-spot-where-karina-vetranos-body-was-found11.png?zoom=1.100000023841858&;resize=620%2C410&;ssl=1" alt="Crime scene: Police activity at the spot where Karina Vetranos ' body was found1.png" width="833" height="551" /><strong>Investigators search the marshes in Howard Beach, Queens, NY where Vetrano’s body was found.</strong></h6>
<div>Lewis was arrested and charged in connection to Vetrano&#8217;s murder six months later.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Despite making a videotaped confession, in which he allegedly admitted to killing Vetrano, saying he was mad at his neighbor when he spotted her at random and snapped, Lewis has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and aggravated sex abuse.<br />
In February, a judge ruled that DNA evidence and a videotaped confession were admissible in court for the trial.<br />
Lewis&#8217; attorneys previously questioned the validity of his DNA sample from a consensual cheek swab, which was compared to DNA evidence recovered from under the victim&#8217;s fingernails, and the manner in which his confession was gained.</p>
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<div>On Day 1 of Lewis&#8217;s trial, the defendant, dressed in a grey suit, glanced back at Vetrano&#8217;s mother and sister, who was rocking back and forth in her seat.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Cathie Vetrano wept as the prosecutor described the moment her husband, Phil, found their daughter lying face down in the dirt.<br />
&#8216;He fell to his knees, wept and did what any parent would do. He cradled her and lifted her back to his chest,&#8217; Leventhal said, according to reporting by the <a class="class" href="https://queenseagle.com/all/2018/11/5/jurors-stone-faced-as-vetrano-trial-prosecutor-builds-case-against-chanel-lewis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Queens Daily Eagle </a><br />
Lewis’s mother, Veta, was also in court today. She arrived in the company of State Assemblyman Charles Barron and the Rev Kevin McCall.<img src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/phillip-and-catherine-vetranos2.jpg?zoom=1.100000023841858&;resize=620%2C412&;ssl=1" alt="phillip-and-catherine-vetranos2" />At the onset of the investigations in Feb., 2017 Karina’s parents Phillip [left] and Cathie Vetrano [center] led by their attorney held a press conference in Queens, urging NY state lawmakers to allow the use of familial DNA testing, to aid identifying suspects in their daughter’s murder. They were successful in their appeal to the law makers.</p>
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Murdered NY jogger Karina Vetrano’s mother sobs in court, hearing how her daughter was thrown to the ground, violently raped and strangled in a NY marsh by Chanel Lewis
