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 no less than 5 home violence-related 911 calls from the West Brighton residence beginning in 2021, sources revealed.
In the newest report in 2023, sources stated Casalaspro allegedly drunkenly attacked Hurstel earlier than slapping the teenager’s mother.
The alleged assault unfolded after cops had instructed the aggressively inebriated man to depart the house earlier that day, solely to have him return, in line with sources.
Neighbors on the tree-lined road 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 improper means. I stated, ‘Would you like me to name 911?’ (The boyfriend) stated, ‘No, you’re positive, you’re positive.’”
Through the first alleged home violence incident in 2021, the mom instructed cops her boyfriend was drunkenly breaking issues of their residence and had a handgun, which was by no means discovered, sources stated.
Casalaspro — who was compelled to go on incapacity due to extreme imaginative and prescient loss, an in depth good friend stated — additionally had a felony document going again to 2000, when he was arrested on suspicion of promoting medicine, in line with sources.
His different offenses included possessing a gravity knife in 2015 and a 2020 assault and reckless driving incident, sources stated.
The troubled Hurstel was additionally the topic of psychological well being calls to the house, sources stated.
His mom had instructed 911 operators that he threatened suicide going again to 2022 and as soon as reduce his fingers a number of instances, in line with the sources.
Hurstel’s mom and different relations declined to remark.
— Further reporting by Kevin Sheehan
