Jessica Thorpe will never forget the last time she saw her brother alive in a hospital bed.
“His skull was fractured. He was declared brain dead at 12:55 on August 13.”
Police said Edgar Stone, 38, was found unconscious on August 10, lying in the driveway of a home on Willera Place in the town of Newburgh.
According to authorities, witnesses initially claimed that Stone injured himself by falling off a roof and deliberately jumping off a ladder, but their investigation quickly revealed that was not the case. .
“When I said she said my girlfriend had jumped off the roof, I knew it was a lie,” Thorpe said. There was no.”
Police in the town of Newburgh have charged David Quaglietta, Samantha Mitzner, Danaya Matichak and Marsha Strang with manslaughter for the alleged brutal assault.
Prosecutors say Stone died from blunt force trauma to the head. The motive is currently unclear.
His sister, from New Jersey, says her family lost a brother, a son and an uncle.
“They separated him from a lot of people. I hope they pay for what they did. My brother didn’t deserve this at all.”