Kazigo Sentenced for Killing His Father

Judge gives defendant 20-year sentence

MINEOLA, NY – Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced today that Mulumba Kazigo has been sentenced to serve twenty years in prison for killing his father in the victim’s Westbury apartment in August of last year.

Last month, Mr. Kazigo pleaded guilty in Nassau County Court to Manslaughter in the First Degree, a Class B Felony.  The District Attorney made the acceptance of the plea conditional to the defendant receiving twenty years in prison for his role in the killing.

In September, the Grand Jury returned an indictment for Murder in the Second Degree, a Class A Felony; Burglary in the First Degree, a Class B Felony; and Tampering with Physical Evidence, a Class E Felony. If convicted on the murder charge, Mr. Kazigo faced a possibility of life in prison.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, Mr. Kazigo, 26, broke into the victim’s Westbury apartment and beat his sleeping father with a baseball bat, before eventually slitting his throat. Mr. Kazigo purchased the bat, various other weapons, and materials used to conceal and transport his father’s body in the days leading up to the incident. After Mr. Kazigo left the apartment, he dumped his father’s remains, along with evidence from the case, in a wooded area in Westchester County, just ten minutes from the Kazigo family home. He would later lead authorities to the remains.

Dr. Joseph Kazigo, 67, worked at Nassau University Medical Center as an emergency room physician.

“Mr. Kazigo’s incredibly violent actions were premeditated and done with full knowledge of the consequences he faced if apprehended,” said Rice. “I took everything into account before agreeing to come down from a charge that could have resulted in Mr. Kazigo spending the rest of his life in prison.”

Judge William Donnino presided over today’s proceedings in the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola.

Handling the case for the prosecution was the Chief of the D.A.’s Major Offense Bureau, ADA Fred Klein. Mr. Kazigo was represented by Steve Chaikin

For more information on the indictment of the defendant, click HERE.

For more information on the plea by the defendant, click HERE.