Suspect in court today, DA says

By Patricia Breakey
Delhi News Bureau

May 13, 2008 04:00 am

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DELHI _ A New York City man being held in connection with the fatal stabbing of a SUNY Delhi student is to appear today in Delaware County Court.

Jose Antonio Lambert, 22, was being held at Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, N.J., on an arrest warrant issued by Delhi Town Justice Richard Gumo. Lambert was released to the custody of New York state police on Monday.

Lambert is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyshawn Bierria, 22, of Queens. Bierria died May 1 after being stabbed multiple times on the State University College of Technology at Delhi campus in the early hours of April 27.

Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said Monday that Lambert will appear for arraignment at 9 a.m. today.

Lambert was being processed into the Delaware County jail late Monday afternoon, according to an official.

A Delaware County grand jury handed up a sealed indictment last week, but Northrup would not comment on whether it is connected with Bierria's murder. An indictment is sealed, he said then, when a defendant has not yet been brought before a local court for arraignment.

Four other men had been charged with first-degree gang assault, a class B felony, and one count of second-degree attempted murder, a class B felony, in connection with Bierria's death, but they were all released after a grand jury issued no bills for a lack of evidence.

Bierria was a second-year individual studies major with enough credits to graduate. He was injured during what appears to have been a brawl with several people at about 4:30 a.m. April 27 near Russell Hall, according to officials, and later died at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.