New York, April 12. The Bronx County Prosecutor’s Office, in New York, filed charges this Wednesday against three construction businessmen and a local supervisor for the death of an Ecuadorian worker that occurred in 2019, when the roof of a three-story building partially collapsed and buried in the rubble.
“The horrendous death of Segundo Manuel Huerta Mayancela, buried under concrete blocks and metal sheets, could have been prevented,” said prosecutor Darcel Clark when announcing in a statement the accusations against contractors Augustine Adesanmi, Akhlak Choudhary, Abazi Okoro and Fatos Mustafaj.
They are accused of different crimes, including second degree murder, criminal negligent homicide and aggravated robbery, among others.
According to the prosecutor, a company operated with “fraudulent credentials, which ignored control requirements and building codes, and built a dangerously unstable structure” at the construction site where the 46-year-old deceased and the accused contractors worked.
The prosecution’s investigation showed that on the day of the accident, workers were carrying concrete blocks and bricks from the second floor to a work platform on the third floor, which did not support the weight.
Prosecutor Clark was accompanied today by Huertas’s widow and their five children. EFE
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