Overview

• Peter Zisopoulos, accused of fatally stabbing FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo in 2022, faces charges of murder and weapon possession in Queens Criminal Court.
• Prosecutors revealed surveillance footage showing Zisopoulos ambushing Russo near her Queens station, stabbing her over 20 times in broad daylight.
• Grisly evidence, including autopsy images and DNA from the murder weapon, was presented to support claims of Zisopoulos’s intent to kill.
• The defense questioned Zisopoulos’s mental state, highlighting his schizophrenia diagnosis, but he declined to pursue an insanity defense.
• Russo, a 24-year FDNY veteran and 9/11 first responder, was posthumously promoted to captain after her death, which occurred just months before her planned retirement.