Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Shaquela Titley, 31, of Deer Park, was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision, after she pleaded guilty in August to Manslaughter in the First Degree, for fatally stabbing Marie Mille, 85, and Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, for attempting to kill her ex-boyfriend.
“During a fit of anger, this defendant chose to go on a rampage where she viciously killed an 85-year-old woman, Marie Mille, and then attempted to kill her ex-boyfriend, in the most merciless and violent way,” said District Attorney Tierney. “We hope this sentence brings a small measure of closure to the victims’ friends and loved ones.”
According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during her guilty plea allocution, on the morning of December 23, 2021, Titley fatally stabbed Marie Mille in her Deer Park home. Titley, who had been renting an apartment inside Marie Mille’s home for approximately nine months, was apparently upset because Titley’s ex-boyfriend and Mille’s son, was not going to renew Titley’s apartment lease.
Titley’s ex-boyfriend, who was not present at the home when the stabbing took place, returned later that day to find his mother deceased and covered in blood. Titley then attacked him and stabbed him multiple times. The victim ultimately fought his way out of the house and sought refuge in a neighbor’s home. Titley was arrested later that day.
On August 29, 2023, Titley pleaded guilty before Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Timothy P. Mazzei, to Manslaughter in the First Degree, a Class B felony, and Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, a Class B violent felony.
On October 5, 2023, Judge Mazzei sentenced Titley to 30 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision. She was represented by Jonathan Manley, Esq.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Frank Schroeder of the Homicide Bureau and John Sciandra of the Major Crime Bureau, with investigative assistance from Detective Patrick Portela from the Suffolk County Police Department’s Homicide Squad.
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