Overview
- Vito D’Ambrosio, 30, is charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder in the Dec. 4 killings at A&A Italian Deli in Bethpage.
- Prosecutors said he called 911, waited by his car with blood on his hands and clothes, and left a 14-inch chef’s knife on a prep counter inside the deli.
- In court, prosecutors attributed multiple confessions to D’Ambrosio and said he told police he thought “the Lord was talking” to him and that he “snapped.”
- Authorities said he had recently been removed from the family home, was living in his car, wore an ankle monitor, and was subject to an order of protection tied to a pending forcible-touching case involving his sister.
- Defense attorneys requested a mental evaluation as the case proceeds, and officials noted the victims were long-serving owners of a neighborhood staple.