Anatomy Of A Murder

In a case seemingly out of the television show CSI, murder suspect Darryl Littlejohn has been linked by hard evidence — his own blood — to the death of Imette St. Guillen on February 25.
At a news conference on March 12, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that traces of Littlejohn’s blood were found on the plastic ties that bound the graduate student’s hands behind her back.
“When you talk about DNA, we’re talking about the certainty of one in a trillion, so it is a very important piece of evidence for us,” said Kelly.
With the blood evidence, prosecutors are going to seek a first-degree murder indictment against the ex-convict hired as a bouncer at The Falls Bar in SoHo. If convicted, Littlejohn could face up to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
According to the New York State Department of Licensing Services, the agency charged with licensing security guards, such as bouncers, Littlejohn, 41, was not licensed for the position. Additionally, no background check was done prior to his hire.
“It’s up to an individual company to perform a background check,” said Rob Seiden, former prosecutor and President and CEO of Fortress Global Investigations Corp. “At $150 to $1,000 — tax deductible as a business expense — a background check would have found any criminal convictions and jail sentences within the past ten years.
If they did a basic background check, they would have known this guy [Littlejohn] had a conviction for a violent crime [robbery],” Seiden pointed out. Seiden went on to tell The Queens Courier that there is no law that requires background checks on individuals, but, in light of the murder, the City Council is reconsidering a bill that would let uniformed officers work as bouncers in bars. Currently, police are not allowed to work in establishments that serve liquor.