A slew of determined pleas for assist repeatedly drew cops to a Staten Island horror home within the years earlier than twisted teen Damien Hurstel allegedly decapitated his mother’s boyfriend contained in the abode, The Publish has realized.
The gorily dismembered beau — 45-year-old metropolis Division of Sanitation employee Anthony Casalaspro — had been listed because the alleged perpetrator in at the least 5 home violence-related 911 calls from the West Brighton residence beginning in 2021, sources revealed.
In the newest report in 2023, sources mentioned Casalaspro allegedly drunkenly attacked Hurstel earlier than slapping the teenager’s mother.
The alleged assault unfolded after cops had informed the aggressively inebriated man to depart the house earlier that day, solely to have him return, in keeping with sources.
Neighbors on the tree-lined avenue additionally recounted witnessing distressing incidents spilling out of the Cary Avenue residence, together with one wherein Hurstel’s mom suffered a damaged leg.
“She was screaming,” a neighbor, who requested to stay unnamed, recalled Tuesday.
“I by no means heard anybody scream like that. She was on the bottom, her leg was bent the unsuitable means. I mentioned, ‘Would you like me to name 911?’ (The boyfriend) mentioned, ‘No, you’re nice, you’re nice.’”
Throughout the first alleged home violence incident in 2021, the mom informed cops her boyfriend was drunkenly breaking issues of their residence and had a handgun, which was by no means discovered, sources mentioned.
Casalaspro — who was compelled to go on incapacity due to extreme imaginative and prescient loss, an in depth buddy mentioned — additionally had a felony report going again to 2000, when he was arrested on suspicion of promoting medicine, in keeping with sources.
His different offenses included possessing a gravity knife in 2015 and a 2020 assault and reckless driving incident, sources mentioned.
The troubled Hurstel was additionally the topic of psychological well being calls to the house, sources mentioned.
His mom had informed 911 operators that he threatened suicide going again to 2022 and as soon as lower his fingers a number of occasions, in keeping with the sources.
Hurstel’s mom and different members of the family declined to remark.
— Extra reporting by Kevin Sheehan
