Eduardo Vega of Islip Terrace pleads guilty to stabbing his son-in-law

An Islip Terrace man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing his son-in-law to death in the driveway of their home during an argument in 2022, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

Eduardo Vega, 58, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in connection with the killing of 34-year-old Roshane McLaren.

Acting District Judge Richard Dunne is expected to sentence Vega to 25 years in prison and five years of probation after release when he appears in court again on October 16.

“This defendant killed Roshane McLaren, his own son-in-law, and left his young grandchild without a father,” said Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney.

Christopher Gioe, Vegas' Hauppauge-based criminal defense attorney, did not respond to a request for comment.

Tanya Denis, 48, Vega's wife and co-defendant, pleaded guilty on Sept. 4 to third-degree obstruction of justice for helping her husband flee from authorities after the stabbing.

Vega and Denis lived in Islip Terrace with Denis' two daughters, their husbands and children, prosecutors said.

In the early morning hours of Sept. 27, 2022, Vega got into an argument with one of his sons-in-law in their backyard, threatened to hit him with a baseball bat and threw a lawn chair at him, authorities said. When the daughters tried to intervene, Vega punched one of them in the face, prosecutors said.

Vega then left the house on foot. A short time later, he returned home with Denis and was confronted by McLaren about hitting his wife, authorities said.

Vega then stabbed McLaren twice in the chest, piercing his left lung, heart, diaphragm and stomach, prosecutors said.

His death was pronounced at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore.

Vega fled the scene and moments later Denis found her husband, gave him money and drove him to the Brentwood train station. From there he fled to Brooklyn, officials said.

Vega turned himself in to police on October 2.