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BRONX, NY – Asun Thomas, a 49-year-old Brooklyn resident, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the first-degree Manslaughter of Luz Miriam Perez in 2019.
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Jeanette Rodriguez-Morick imposed the sentence with an additional five years of post-release supervision.
The verdict comes after a jury found Thomas guilty on October 12.
Perez was strangled by Thomas on October 12, 2019, while her two young children were present in their Bronx home.
The children were discovered locked in the apartment with their mother’s body a day later. Thomas, with a prior manslaughter conviction, surrendered himself two months after the incident.
