Man Pleads Guilty To Fatal Stabbing Of Wife

District Attorney Richard A. Brown has announced that a former Manhattan nightclub chef has pled guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of his wife last August as their three-year-old daughter stood nearby.
Brown identified the defendant as Louis Roberto Jara Coello, 31, of 46-01 67th Street in Woodside, a former chef at a Manhattan nightclub. He pled guilty to manslaughter in the first degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Randall T. Eng who indicated that he would sentence him to a determinate term of 18 years in prison when sentenced on January 4, 2006.
District Attorney Brown said, &#8220The defendant's actions were violent and ruthless and have left his young daughter deeply and permanently traumatized and facing a life without her mother's love and guidance. Under the circumstances, the sentence to be imposed is more than warranted.”
The District Attorney said the defendant admitted that, during a verbal dispute inside their residence on the morning of August 28, he stabbed his wife, Fanny Anguisaca, 29, a hairdresser, multiple times with a six-inch steak knife in her abdomen and chest, causing her death. The victim had separated with her husband three weeks prior to the incident.
Brown said that the couple's three-year-old daughter was awake and present inside the residence at the time of the incident. Fortunately, she was not physically injured. The defendant fled the scene with his daughter and shortly after quit his job of eight years without citing a reason. The knife was recovered at the scene.