The defense attorney for one of the men accused in the quadruple murders of an Irondequoit family slammed a judge's key ruling allowing the state to take a second DNA sample from his client as "unnecessary."
Julio Pimentel Soriano, 34, is accused of four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbings of Fraime Ubaldo, 30; Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26; and their two children, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4; and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, at the family's Irondequoit, New York home on Aug. 31, according to police.
The victims were found dead amid a series of fires set throughout their home in an attempt to cover up the killings, police allege.
As part of the latest developments in the case, the district attorney filed a motion for a second DNA swab from Soriano, prompting his defense attorney, Joe Damelio, to object in court Monday. Ultimately, the judge sided with the prosecution.
"Our position was they already have his DNA. They already captured it at one point. We thought it was redundant. We just said [it was] a Fourth Amendment intrusion. Unnecessary," said Damelio, according to WHEC-TV.
Soriano's brother and alleged accomplice, Luis Francisco Soriano, 31, remains on the lam and is wanted on four counts of second-degree murder. Police believe he fled to Puerto Rico.
The pair also face charges of burglary, kidnapping and arson, say police, according to the outlet.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive, but confirmed the two suspects and Ubadlo are cousins.
"I'm always thinking of that night or that morning; I wasn't there to protect my daughter and protect my grandbabies," Ubaldo's father-in-law, Luis Moreno, previously said in September, according to WHAM-TV. "That's a pain inside me that's never going to go away."
Moreno condemned the brutal slayings as "the worst day of my life."
