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Release # 22-2015
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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QUEENS COUNTY
125-01 QUEENS BOULEVARD
KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK 11415-1568
718-286-6000
RICHARD A. BROWN
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015
CONTACT: PRESS OFFICE
(718) 286-6315
QUEENS MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING GOOD SAMARITAN
IN FIRST HOMICIDE OF 2011
Victim Gunned Down After Helping Woman Who Was Attacked Following New Year’s Eve Bash;
Defendant Faces 20 Years In Prison When Sentenced
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Queens man has pleaded guilty
to manslaughter in the January 1, 2011, death of a 29-year-old Jamaica, Queens, man who had stepped in to
break up a fight and escort a woman – who was the defendant’s ex-girlfriend – to her car.
District Attorney Brown said, “A celebration of the New Year turned deadly when the defendant
gunned down a man who was doing nothing more than trying to stop an attack on a woman. This was a
senseless act of violence for which the defendant will now be locked behind bars for a lengthy period of time.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Carie Dixon, 30, of 115-37 Bedell Street in the
Jamaica section of Queens. Dixon pleaded guilty today to first-degree manslaughter before Queens Supreme
Court Justice Michael Aloise, who indicated he will sentence the defendant to 20 years in prison on March
12, 2015.
District Attorney Brown said that, according to the criminal complaint, a group of women, including
the defendant’s current and former girlfriend, became embroiled in a verbal dispute following a New Year’s
Eve party at a banquet hall in South Richmond Hill, Queens. When the ex-girlfriend began being pummeled
with snowballs by the other women, the victim, Dwayne Haughton, intervened and offered to escort her to her
car.
According to court documents, said District Attorney Brown, as Haughton walked the woman to her
car, another man approached, punching the woman in the face and both she and Haughton fell to the ground,
at which point Dixon approached while reaching into his waistband and fired several shots, hitting Haughton
in the torso and right thigh. Haughton was taken to a nearby hospital where he later died.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Debra Lynn Pomodore, of the District Attorney’s Homicide Trials
Bureau, prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Brad A. Leventhal,
Homicide Trial Bureau Chief, and Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Bureau Chief, and with the assistance of Assistant
District Attorney Briana G. Heymann, of the Homicide Investigations Bureau, who is under the supervision
of Assistant District Attorneys Peter T. Reese, Chief of the Homicide Investigations Bureau, and Peter J.
McCormack III and Richard B. Schaeffer, Deputy Bureau Chiefs. Executive Assistant District Attorney for
Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes
Daniel A. Saunders have overall supervision over the Homicide Trials and Homicide Investigations Bureaus.
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