Fatally Beat Patron In Rich. Hill
A former bouncer at a Richmond Hill nightclub faces the next quarter-century in prison for fatally beating a patron outside the establishment in March 2013, prosecutors announced.
Kristian P. Sorbera, 28, of Parsons Boulevard in Fresh Meadows was convicted last Wednesday night, July 23, of first-degree manslaughter following a one-week trial before Acting Supreme Court Justice John B. Latella.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 28; Sorbera faces up to 25 years behind bars, according to law enforcement sources.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Sorbera attacked the victim-Deosarran Ramdular, 24, of Richmond Hill-outside the club at about 5 a.m. on Mar. 18, 2013, punching and kicking him repeatedly about the head and body.
Ramdular was later declared brain dead; he died five days later after being removed from life support.
Law enforcement sources said Sorbera was working at the Moka Nightclub and Lounge, located at 130-05 91st Ave., the previous night and observed Ramdular partying with a friend. Reportedly, Ramdular and Sorbera got into a verbal dispute outside the establishment, but left with a friend to take a cab home.
“According to trial testimony, [Sorbera] saw the victim outside the club after it had closed,” Brown said in a statement. “He jumped out of his car, punched the victim once, knocking him to the ground, and brutally kicked the Queens man in the face and head, causing brain death.”
Following the assault, it was reported, Sorbera told Ramdular’s companion that “your friend deserved that.”
Members of the 102nd Precinct and EMS units rushed to the scene. Paramedics brought Ramdular to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he succumbed to his injuries on Mar. 22, 2013.
The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Rachel E. Buchter of the DA’s Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Kanella Georgopoulos of the DA’s Criminal Court Bureau, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys James W. Evangelou, Criminal Court Bureau chief, and Robert J. Hanophy, deputy bureau chief.
