Thursday, June 16, 2005
D.A. BROWN: QUEENS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER FOR AUNT’S SLAYING; TO BE SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Jamaica, Queens man has pled guilty to manslaughter for the December 2003 shooting death of his aunt who owned and operated a daycare center in Richmond Hill. The defendant faces a determinate 25 year prison sentence.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has pled guilty to shooting his aunt numerous times causing her death. The victim, Effie Roseborough, was a loved and respected member of the community and her untimely and violent death has left the children that she cared for and loved and their families shattered. ”
District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Raymond Smith, 33, of 94-24 Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill, Queens who pled guilty earlier today to Manslaughter in the First Degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Hanophy who indicated that he would sentence the defendant to a determinate term of 25 years in prison at sentencing on July 7, 2005.
According to the District Attorney, the defendant admitted that on December 3, 2003 at the Tots Learning World and Rose Tutoring Center at 94-24 Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill, a daycare center owned by the victim, Effie Roseborough, 57, he shot his aunt 16 times using two separate handguns. The victim’s body was found in a second-floor vacant apartment.
The defendant was arrested later that night inside Flushing Meadow Park in Corona after a high speed chase by police on the Grand Central Parkway. At time of arrest he was in possession of numerous handguns including one of the murder weapons.
Assistant District Attorney Denise Tirino of the District Attorney’s Homicide Trials Bureau is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Jack Warsawsky, Deputy 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.