Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Friday, Dec. 8, that a Manhattan man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and 5 years post release supervision for fatally stabbing a Norwood man in the heart.

 

Reacting to the announcement, Clark said, “The defendant fatally stabbed the victim during a fight, an up close, vicious attack for which he has been held accountable.”

 

Clark said the defendant, Omar Key, 49, last of West 142nd Street in Manhattan, was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison and 5 years post release supervision for first-degree manslaughter by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Zimmerman. Key was convicted on October 24, after a jury trial.

 

According to the investigation, and as reported at the time, on October 9, 2020, at around 8 p.m. on the northeast corner of East Gun Hill Road and Jerome Avenue in Norwood, a fight broke out among a group of people. Key was seen during the fight taking out what appeared to be a knife and stabbing Marvin Reginald Duchenne, 29, in the heart. Duchenne died hours later in the hospital.

 

The case was prosecuted by Senior Homicide Counsel George Suminski of the Homicide Bureau, under the Supervision of Christine Scaccia, chief of the Homicide Bureau, and under the overall supervision of James Brennan, deputy chief of the Trial Division, and Theresa Gottlieb, chief of the Trial Division.

 

Clark also thanked Trial Preparation Assistants Jonathan Romero, Jonathan Campa Pantaleon, Yoisy Jiminez of the Homicide Bureau, Chief Appellate Attorney Peter Coddington and Assistant District Attorney Nicole Neckles, of the Appeals Bureau, along with Stalin Crespo of the Bronx DA Video Unit, NYPD Detectives Sheldon Smith of Bronx Homicide Squad and Christina Meehan of the Crime Scene Unit for their respective assistance and work on the case.