REGO PARK MAN SENTENCED FOR MURDER
OF PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND IN RIDGEWOOD
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TIMESLEDGER | QNS.COM | FEB. 25 - MARCH 3, 2022 9
BY BILL PARRY
The Rego Park man, found
guilty by a jury in the 2019
murder of his pregnant girlfriend,
could spend the rest
of his life behind bars following
his sentencing last week,
according to Queens DA
Melinda Katz.
Anthony Hobson, 51, of
64th Avenue in Rego Park,
was sentenced by Queens Supreme
Court Justice Michael
B. Aloise to a term of 25 years
to life in prison for the February
2019 knife attack on
Jennifer Irigoyen inside her
Ridgewood apartment building,
to run consecutively
with the 1- to 4-year term on
the tampering with physical
evidence conviction. Hobson
was also found guilty
of criminal possession of a
weapon following the twoweek
trial by jury.
According to trial testimony,
at around 1 a.m. on
Feb. 3, 2019, on the third floor
of the residential building on
Myrtle Avenue, a neighbor
ran into the hallway after
hearing the victim scream,
“Help! Help! He’s trying to
kill the baby!” The neighbor
saw Hobson drag the victim
into a stairwell, where he
repeatedly plunged a steak
knife into the body of the
35-year-old real estate agent.
Irigoyen suffered puncture
wounds to her neck, chest
and abdomen, along with numerous
other injuries. Officers
from the 104th Precinct
and EMS units responded to
the scene. Paramedics rushed
Irigoyen to Wyckoff Heights
Medical Center, where she
and her unborn child were
later pronounced dead.
Hobson fled the crime
scene with the murder
weapon, the knife that was
never recovered. He made it
to Pennsylvania but turned
himself in to law enforcement
five days after the murder.
“Today’s sentence brings
the defendant to justice for
a brutal crime,” Katz said.
“Inside the stairwell of her
apartment building, the victim
yelled out that the defendant
was trying to kill her
unborn child as he stabbed
her in the neck, chest and
abdomen.”
Reach reporter Bill Parry
by e-mail at bparry@schneps
media.com or by phone at
(718) 260–4538.
Rego Park resident Anthony Hobson was sentenced last week for killing his pregnant girlfriend in
Ridgewood in 2019. Photo by Robert Stridiron
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