Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a Bay Shore man was convicted yesterday for the March 2022 murder of his former fiancée as she walked in the underground parking garage of a medical office building in New Hyde Park where she worked.
Quay Sean Hines, a/k/a Quay-Sean Renard Hines, 33, was convicted Thursday by a jury after a trial before Judge Robert Bogle of Murder in the Second Degree (an A-I felony) and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree (a C violent felony).
The trial began on September 9, 2024, and the jury deliberated for less than two hours before delivering their verdict. The defendant is due back for sentencing on October 29, 2024, and faces a potential maximum of 40 years to life in prison.
“Quay Sean Hines and Amelia Laguerre had a tumultuous on-again off-again relationship for years, and when Amelia decided to move on for good, the defendant’s obsession with their relationship drove him to murder her,” said DA Donnelly. “The defendant crept up behind Amelia in the parking garage of her place of work and sadistically shot her nine times all over her body, fatally lodging a bullet in her heart. This senseless, horrific act cost a young woman her life and denied her eight-year-old son the chance to grow up with his mother’s love and care. Our thoughts remain with Amelia’s family as they continue to mourn her tragic loss.”
DA Donnelly said that on March 31, 2022, at approximately 4:08 p.m., 33-year-old Amelia Laguerre, Hines’ former fiancée, entered the underground parking garage of the office building where she worked at 1999/1991 Marcus Avenue in New Hyde Park.
The defendant, armed with a loaded firearm, repeatedly fired at Laguerre, striking her nine times, and then fled the scene.
Officers responded to a call of gun shots fired, and Laguerre was transported to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset where she was pronounced dead at 4:49 p.m.
Hines was arrested on April 8, 2022, in Merrick by members of the Nassau County Police Department’s Bureau of Special Operations and Homicide Squad.
The case is being prosecuted by Bureau Chief Michelle Lewisohn of the Grand Jury Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Danielle Ebbighausen of the County Court Trial Bureau under the supervision of Bureau Chief Jared Rosenblatt of the Homicide Bureau and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for the Litigation Division Kevin Higgins. The defendant is represented by Scott Gross, Esq. and Gregory Zak, Esq.