A 29-year-old male was convicted of brutally raping a sleeping nurse after he broke into her apartment in the middle of the night in September 2024.
The suspect, Donovan Murphy, was arrested by the NYPD Fugitive Task Force on Oct. 2, 2024, four days after the brutal attack. He broke into the nurses apartment at 3:40 a.m. on September 28. The 29-year-old nurse who was sleeping between shifts found him in bed next to her whereupon he began a vicious assault that left her with a fractured skull.
The victim bravely took the stand to confront the accused in a trail in New York State Supreme Court that began on March 12 and ended with his conviction on April 6. Aside from rape, Murphy was also convicted of burglary as a sexually motivated felony and one count of assault…