Slack
Booker
Brown
WHITE PLAINS – Two New Rochelle High School students pled guilty
in Westchester County Court on Friday to felony stalking for their roles
in an incident resulting in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old high school
student, Valaree Schwab.
County Court Judge Barry Warhit accepted the pleas. Dominique Slack is
scheduled to be sentenced in January and Carl Booker is to be sentenced
in February.
On January 2018, Slack and Booker, along with another teen, a juvenile
and other unnamed and other unindicted co-conspirators, engaged in a course
of conduct likely to cause reasonable fear of physical injury and intentionally
caused injury to Schwab.
After stalking the victim for some time, the group confronted and assaulted
her on a sidewalk seriously injuring her. Schwab dropped her house keys
at the time and one of the teens picked them up. She followed the group
to try to get them back and was stabbed inside a restaurant. She died
later at a hospital.
Charges against a third defendant, Z’inah Brown, including murder,
are pending.
All three were indicted by a grand jury last March.
