Photo courtesy of the NYPD
A Bronx man has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the grisly stabbing to death of a Olinville man, who was killed in 2019.
The Office of the Bronx District Attorney, Darcel Clark, announced that Terrance Caudle, 33, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday, May 18, after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of O’Brian Maxwell, found dead in the stairway of his building at 3677 White Plains Road in Olinville, on Sunday, June 30, 2019.
According to the prosecution’s investigation, Caudle “repeatedly stabbed O’Brien Maxwell, 30, in the neck inside the victim’s apartment after a dispute involving borrowed clothing. Maxwell ran out of the apartment and collapsed in the stairwell where he was found bleeding and unresponsive.”
Clark said of the case, “Responding officers found the victim in a pool of blood in an apartment building stairwell. The victim was a father and leaves behind a young girl.” She added, “The defendant’s guilty plea will not bring her father back, but the perpetrator of this attack is being held accountable for his deadly actions.”
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A law enforcement source said at the time that the victim was discovered in the 4th-floor stairwell with “trauma to the neck.”
A 4th-floor female resident of the building, who declined to be identified, said shortly after the grisly discovery, “It’s upsetting, because it’s literally a few feet from my apartment door, so it’s very frightening.” The resident continued, “We didn’t open the door until we heard the [police] radios, and I knew we were safe.”
On exiting her apartment and the building, the resident said of the stairwell door, “The door was ajar, because the legs [of the victim] were keeping it open.”
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An employee of the building who cleaned the crime scene when detectives concluded their investigation called it, “a bloody mess,” and recalled a blood trail that began on the 8th floor and continued to the 4th floor, where Maxwell apparently collapsed.
A day after the victim’s killing, police released a building surveillance photo of an individual wanted for questioning in connection to the case.
In addition to serving his sentence for the crime, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio also ordered Caudle to five years post-release supervision by the Department of Corrections.
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The case was prosecuted by Ass
Clark thanked NYPD Detective Michael Simpson of the 47th Precinct for his work on the investigation.
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I hope this person is going to get the help he needs cause it was unnecessary for him to come to this. I’m hoping the family will get the help they need to move on cause the little child daughter going to need it. Sorry for lost cause she needs a father to carry on not just the mother.
Thanks Michael for your comment and we also hope both familes involved and all of their friends can come to terms with what happend and are able to find some peace in the future and I pray the young man’s daughter finds the strength to push forward with her life without her father.