JUDGEMENT DAY: Female Dishwasher From NYC Gets Possible Life In Prison For Murdering A Yonkers Prep Cook – By Brian Harrod


A 29-year-old woman accused of stabbing a Yonkers co-worker to death with a kitchen knife during an argument two years ago an Irvington restaurant where they worked has been sentenced to up to life in prison.

Rosa Ramirez, of New York City, pleaded guilty in February to charges of second-degree murder in the fight that killed her prep cook co-worker, Bonifacio “Boni” Rodriguez, at River City Grille in Irvington on April 10, 2018.

She was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 17 years and up to life in state prison for her crimes.

Police investigators never said what Ramirez and the dead co-worker had been fighting about prior to the deadly attack.

She had only worked at high end River City Grille for a few days at the time of the fight. 

Bonifacio Rodriguez, meanwhile, had worked there for two decades.

Prosecutors say Rosa Ramirez was working as a dishwasher along with other kitchen staff around 11 a.m. that deadly April day that she attacked the 38-year-old Rodriguez with a kitchen knife, though didn’t elaborate on what happened before.

Boni Rodriguez tried to protect himself but was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said; the Yonkers man was pronounced dead at a hospital. 

No employees in the kitchen intervened to save him from the knife weilding woman.