Uniondale Man Faces 25 Years In Prison For Killing Girlfriend: DA

Hempstead NY

03 December, 2020

3:59 PM

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EAST MEADOW, NY — A 30-year-old Uniondale man faces 25 years in prison after he was indicted on second-degree murder charges in the killing of his pregnant girlfriend, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Wednesday. Goey Charles was indicted by a grand jury in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday after prosecutors said that he dragged the body of Vanessa Pierre, 29, Hempstead, out of her car and left her on the sidewalk along a Queens Expressway in the overnight hours of Oct. 23, Katz said in a news release. "The defendant is accused of committing a despicable, irreparable act of domestic violence – killing the young woman who was to be the mother of his child, dragging her limp body from a car and then abandoning her body alongside a road," Katz said Wednesday in the news release. "He will be held accountable for his alleged actions." According to prosecutors, video surveillance shows Charles pulled over in a Dodge Challenger registered to Pierre on Horace Harding Expressway at 2:50 a.m. The video shows Charles getting out of the driver's seat of the car and then getting into the back of the car where Pierre is seated and moving, Katz said. Before long, Charles is seen getting out of the back of the car and closes the door behind him and according to the video, Pierre appears motionless and is stretched out across the back seat of the car, Katz said. At 4:38 a.m., the video shows Charles getting out of the car and dragging Pierre's body out of the backseat and leaving her on the sidewalk. Prosecutors said he then got back into the car and drove away. At around 6 a.m., Pierre's body was found by a pedestrian who reported that Pierre had a pair of gray sweatpants wrapped around her neck, Katz said in the news release. Pierre was pronounced dead by emergency responders who found her unconscious on the sidewalk. Charles was ordered to be held in jail by a Supreme Court judge on Wednesday and is scheduled to appear in court again on Feb. 3.