Tuesday, June 14, 2005
D.A. BROWN: MANHATTAN MAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR STABBING DEATH OF JAMAICA YOUTH DURING THREE BOROUGH CRIME RAMPAGE
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Manhattan man has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the January 2004 stabbing death of a Jamaica, Queens youth during a three-county crime rampage. The defendant has already been sentenced to up to life in prison for crimes in the Bronx and Manhattan that took place on the same day.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has been convicted of multiple violent crimes. The sentences imposed will punish him and protect public safety and, hopefully, keep him in prison for the remainder of his life.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Andre Shobey, 47, of 630 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, who said he was employed as a salesman. The defendant pled guilty on May 17, 2005 to Murder in the Second Degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Hanophy who imposed today’s indeterminate sentence of 15 years to life in prison.
District Attorney Brown said that the defendant admitted in court that on January 21, 2004 about 2:45 p.m. at 106-56 160th Street in Jamaica, Queens he fatally stabbed Terrance Neal, 18, in the chest and throat with a knife. The victim was caring for a four-year-old child when he was slain as he tried to stop the defendant from attacking another person. The child was not harmed.
According to District Attorney Brown, the defendant previously pled guilty in the Bronx and Manhattan to crimes that took place on the same day as the Queens homicide. The crimes included the shooting of a woman inside an apartment building at 1420 Washington Avenue in the Bronx and the robbery and sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl on a rooftop landing in the Baruch Houses on the lower East Side of Manhattan. The defendant has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of those crimes and the Manhattan sentence is to run consecutively.
The investigation was conducted by Detectives Charles LoPresti and David Shapiro of the New York City Police Department’s 103rd Precinct Detective Squad under the supervision of Lieutenant Al Murphy as well as detectives of the Queens Homicide and Queens Robbery Squads.
Assistant District Attorney John W. Kosinski of the District Attorney’s Homicide Trials Bureau prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Bureau Chief, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.