Killer Who Stabbed Brooklyn Grandmother 12 Times Sentenced: DA

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — The man who killed a Brooklyn grandmother by stabbing her 12 times in the neck, head and chest — then claimed it was self defense — now faces a 23-year sentence, prosecutors said.

Gregory White, 45, was sentenced Wednesday for killing his girlfriend Victoria Hammond, 58, in her basement apartment near West 37th Street and Neptune Avenue on January 24, 2015, prosecutors said.

The investigation began when a neighbor found Hammond’s brutalized and half-naked body in her Coney Island home at about 9:45 p.m., said prosecutors.

Police officers rushed to Hammond's home and quickly found White's blood on his girlfriend's light switch, prosecutors said.

But investigators did not find White and arrest him until Oct. 28, when they found him lying on a row of subway seats on an A train at Columbus Circle, said prosecutors.

That's when White told police he had stabbed Hammond, but claimed he was defending himself after she lunged at him with a knife, prosecutors said.

The East New York was sentenced in Brooklyn Criminal Court Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in March, prosecutors said.

"This senseless act of violence robbed a family of a loving mother and grandmother," said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “The defendant’s callous behavior brought a violent death to a woman for whom he allegedly cared."

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