PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release on May 2, 2006

Contact: William J. Smith (718) 556-7150
William.Smith@rcda.nyc.gov

D.A. Donovan: Guilty Plea Entered in August ’05 Murder of 18 year-old S.I. Woman
Raviv Gabbay, 27, to Serve 18 Years in Prison for Suffocation Murder of Half-Sister, Aliza Parsy in her Sea View Home Last Year

STATEN ISLAND, NY - Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. today announced a guilty plea has been entered by Raviv Gabbay (DOB: 7/19/1978), of East 12th Street, Brooklyn, for the suffocation of his half-sister, Aliza Parsy, 18, of Staten Island, on August 10, 2005. The defendant entered a plea of guilty to the charge of 1st degree Manslaughter before Judge Leonard P. Rienzi in State Supreme Court, and will be sentenced to 18 years in prison on May 16, 2006.

Gabbay, was placed under arrest September 19, 2005 and later indicted on charges of 2nd degree Murder, 1st and 2nd degree Burglary, and related charges. While in custody Gabbay made a statement that implicating himself in the suffocation death of his half-sister within her home on Rupert Avenue in the Sea View section of the borough. He was linked to the murder by DNA recovered at the scene. The murder followed Gabbay illegally entering the home shared by the victim and her mother, who is also the defendant’s mother.

The investigation of the case was conducted by Assistant District Attorney Wanda DeOliveira, Deputy Chief of the District Attorney’s Sex Crimes/Special Victims Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Duncan Brown, who are prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Yolanda L. Rudich, Bureau Chief. The defendant was represented by Paul Lemole, Esq.

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