8 FEBRUARY 3, 2022 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Jury convicts Rego Park man of murder
in stabbing death of pregnant girlfriend
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
A Rego Park man could spend the
rest of his life behind bars aft er a
jury found him guilty of killing
his pregnant girlfriend, according to
Queens District Attorney Melinda
Katz.
Anthony Hobson, 51, was convicted
Tuesday, Jan. 25, aft er a jury trial of
murder and other crimes in the February
2019 knife attack on his girlfriend,
Jennifer Irigoyen, in Ridgewood.
The jury found Hobson, of 64th
Avenue in Rego Park, guilty of murder,
tampering with evidence and criminal
possession of a weapon following a twoweek
long trial. Queens Supreme court
Justice Michael B. Aloise, who presided
at the trial, set sentencing for Feb. 17.
Hobson faces up to 25 years to life
in prison, with additional possible
time for the tampering with evidence
conviction.
According to trial testimony, on
Feb. 9, 2019, at around 1 a.m., on the
third fl oor of a residential building
on Myrtle Avenue, a neighbor heard
the victim screaming, “Help! Help! He’s
trying to kill the baby!”
The neighbor ran into the hallway
and saw the defendant dragging
Irigoyen, a 35-year-old real estate
agent, into the stairwell. The witness
saw Hobson — using what appeared to
be a kitchen steak knife — repeatedly
stab the victim.
Katz said Irigoyen suff ered puncture
wounds to her neck, chest and
abdomen, along with numerous other
injuries. Offi cers 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 left the scene with the
murder weapon, which was never recovered.
He fl ed to Pennsylvania but
turned himself in to law enforcement
fi ve days aft er the murder.
“The defendant has been convicted
and held responsible for taking the life
of a woman, who was the mother of a
young son and was also approximately
12 weeks pregnant,” Katz said. The
defendant now faces a lengthy prison
sentence from the court.”
Rego Park resident Anthony Hobson was convicted of killing his
pregnant girlfriend in Ridgewood in 2019. Photo by Robert Stridiron
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