Suspect in fatal stabbing of NJ high school football star outside NYC ax-throwing bar set to be freed on $1M bond.
The Long Island man accused of fatally stabbing a New Jersey high schooler in the heart outside an ax-throwing bar in Lower Manhattan will be released from Rikers Island Wednesday after a judge slashed his bail by several million dollars in light of new evidence, The Post has learned.
Gianluca Bordone, 19 — who was busted Thursday in the slaying of 17-year-old Rocco Rodden — posted a $1 million bond secured by a bail bondsman to the stars Ira Judelson, sources said.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Weiner lowered the teen’s $4 million bail on Wednesday after prosecutors and Bordone’s attorney conferred during a hearing over new video evidence that allegedly suggested he was being chased down the street around the time of the fatal encounter, sources said.
Bordone faces manslaughter and assault charges over the deadly fight that took place around 1:50 a.m. on Thanksgiving in front of the Live Axe at 96 Lafayette Street in Chinatown.
He allegedly stabbed Rodden — a high school junior and football player — and slashed the boy’s 19-year-old brother during a confrontation outside the bar, where all three were attending a private party, police and prosecutors said.
The brothers were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where Rodden died from a six-inch stab wound that pierced the left ventricle of his heart around 8:45 a.m., authorities said.
As part of his release Wednesday, Bordone, of Oyster Bay, was also required to surrender his passport and check into an outreach program, sources added.
His defense attorney, Warren William Quaid, declined to comment.
Authorities have said Bordone initially fled the scene of the stabbing in a cab but was nabbed by police based on eye witnesses’ descriptions and his vest, which was still coated in blood.
He was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday wearing a black sweatshirt with the word “courage” emblazoned on the back.
Bordone appeared not to have known that Rodden had died, and mouthed “oh my God” when the prosecutor told the judge of the teen’s passing at the Sunday proceedings.
When Judge Janet McDonnell originally set his bail at a whopping $4 million cash, $12 million bond, the teen turned to his well-dressed family in the gallery with his mouth agape.
