Overview
- Stephanie Diller described spending a day off with her husband and a 5:30 p.m. call before learning he had been taken to Jamaica Hospital.
- A Jamaica Hospital trauma surgeon testified Diller arrived with no heartbeat, was temporarily resuscitated through extreme measures, and was pronounced dead that evening.
- Sgt. Sasha Rosen told jurors he saw Guy Rivera with what he believed was a gun, that a struggle followed, and that Rivera’s finger was on the trigger.
- Prosecutors contend Rivera intentionally aimed and fired under Diller’s vest, while the defense argues the shot discharged accidentally during the struggle.
- Rivera, 36, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and weapons charges, faces life without parole if convicted, and the Queens trial is set to resume Monday.