NEW YORK - MAY 26: Pedestrians in Times Square walk past a police car May 26, 2004 in New York City. The U.S. fears that al Qaeda may be plotting an attack inside the country or against U.S. interests abroad. Despite these warnings, the government has no plans to raise the terror threat level and has no details on when, where or how an attack might occur. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Photo: Spencer Platt/2004 Getty Images
An East Harlem man who confessed to the 2010 killing of 28-year-old Betty Williams received a sentence on Tuesday of twenty years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Fifty-seven-year-old Hassan Malik pleaded guilty to manslaughter, telling police that he choked Williams during a dispute while she was staying at his place. After she died, Malik stuffed her body into a suitcase and left it on 114th Street. “I’m sorry,” said Malik, who cried as the Manhattan judge issued the sentence. “I apologize to the family of Betty Williams, for what happened.”
