A former Golden Gloves boxing champion has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the 2014 murder of his one-time girlfriend.
Trevis Hall, 31, of Far Rockaway, was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in July for stabbing Margarita Rivera, 31, then bludgeoning her with a pipe on Watson Place in Jamaica on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2014.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, in a statement issued by his office on Thursday, said Hall still had the receipt for the pipe in his pocket when he was found by police.
“Breaking up with someone should not equal a death sentence, but in a violent rage this defendant carried out a brutal execution of his former lover,” Brown said.
“With a pipe and a knife, the defendant viciously stabbed and beat the 31-year-old victim in the middle of the street. The defendant — a Golden Gloves winner in 2009 — purchased the pipe just 90 minutes before the fatal assault and still had the receipt with the matching SKU number in his pocket when he was apprehended,” the district attorney added. “The sentence imposed by the Court today is more than warranted.”
Brown said police responding to the scene found the victim in a pool of her own blood and bleeding profusely from her head, but when she was asked who did that to her, she managed to say “Tre” three times.
The murder weapons, a knife along with the pipe, were both recovered at the crime scene. The case was investigated by the detective squad at the NYPD’s 103rd Precinct.
Hall, a native of Guyana, was arrested after EMS personnel found him unconscious in a garbage bin in Richmond Hill later that day.
The receipt for the pipe was from a Home Depot. Detectives subsequently were able to retrieve and view security video footage of Hall buying the pipe that was found at the murder scene.