A killer landlord from Queens got life without parole Tuesday after he  mercilessly slaughtered  his girlfriend and two tenants because he thought she was about to end their relationship.

 I'm sure there's a special place in hell for someone like you,  Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder told David Daniel in a fiery speech from the bench Tuesday.  I have a sentence voucher from each of the people you killed that will get you in the door. 

The family members of Daniel's victims - his girlfriend, Coleen Caesar Fields, 51, and basement apartment tenants Wayne Thomas, 57, and Evette Sweeney, 55 - clapped and cheered as the judge pronounced the killer's sentence for each of their murders. Holder, who first took the bench in 2006, is retiring this year, and this sentencing is expected to be his last.

The judge blasted Daniel, 56, for rejecting an offer of 33 years-to-life that prosecutors made in March 2025.  That was a gift,  Holder said.  That was a gift, because I told you how much time you could possibly get in a case like this. And I know you are not a stupid man. 

Daniel showed up at the 113th Precinct stationhouse the morning of Nov. 14, 2023, and told the officers there he had done a  horrible thing  inside his Milburn St. home in St. Albans.

When cops searched the house, they found Fields facedown on a bed in a second-floor bedroom, dead from multiple stab wounds to her neck. Police also found tenants Thomas and Sweeney stabbed to death in the basement.

At the time, Daniel told police he snapped because Fields had mocked him for not collecting back rent. But that motive fell apartment as the case went to trial, and jurors got a picture of Daniel as a possessive, unfaithful boyfriend who surveilled Fields with cameras in the home they shared.

 You said on your probation report that things were exaggerated to make it look bad. Make it look bad? You killed three people. You stabbed a disabled woman to death in her bed while she was sleeping! What gets worse than that?  the judge boomed.  What universe do you think you can do that and then - what, go home? What are you think

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