Posted on: July 15, 2025 07:00 AM

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Manhattan man sentenced for stabbing deaths on two Queens men in 2021 DA

A Manhattan man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Monday for stabbing two Queens men to death in a two-day period in 2021. Raymond Kenner, 25, of West 31st Street, pleaded guilty on June 3 to two counts of manslaughter in the first degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder for fatally stabbing a man in Hollis with his co-defendant Alexander Stephens. And Kenner killed a second man in Rufus King Park two nights later. “Raymond Kenner stabbed two young men in cold blood and callously left them to die in late December 2021,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. According to the charges, on the night of Dec. 21, 2021, Kenner and Stephens were seen on video surveillance following the first victim, Andrew Cunje, 25, from Francis Lewis Boulevard to Carpenter Avenue in Hollis and then confronting him. Moments later, Cunje was found on the ground bleeding from multiple stab wounds inflicted by Kenner.