By Nathan Duke
Two Brooklyn men have been handed lengthy prison sentences for stabbing a 24-year-old electrician from Auburndale to death and slashing another man after leaving an Astoria nightclub in 2005, the Queens district attorney said.
Jonathan Andujar, 23, of 541 Wythe Ave. in Brooklyn, and Angel Class, 22, of 60 Division Ave. in Brooklyn, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday by Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise, Queens DA Richard Brown said.
Class, who was also convicted of assault, was sentenced to an additional seven years, the DA said.
On July 9, 2005, the two men got into a verbal dispute with Flushing’s Dimitrios “Jimmy” Zisimopoulos on 30th Avenue in Astoria around 4:50 a.m., Brown said.
“The deceased was a young man with a bright future ahead of him and his untimely death is a constant reminder to his family of the defendants’ senseless actions,” the DA said. “Hopefully, they can find some degree of closure in knowing that those responsible have been punished and will be isolated from harming anyone else in society for a long time.”
The defendants, both of whom were unemployed at the time of their arrest, were convicted of manslaughter, the DA said.
Andujar and Class stabbed the electrician in the abdomen, fatally wounding him, near a souvlaki stand on 30th Avenue as well as slashing Brooklyn’s Michael Geroulakis, 27, on the right leg, the DA said. The incident occurred after they had left the Clic nightclub at 32-04 Broadway, Brown said.
At the time of the stabbing, the defendants were both teenagers. A third man, Brooklyn carpenter Juan Gonzalez, who was 29 at the time of the incident, had also been arrested in the stabbing. But he was acquitted May 13, a DA spokesman said.
Zisimopoulos grew up in Flushing and graduated from Francis Lewis High School. He had been admitted into the electricians’ union just shortly before he was killed.
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