TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2005
D.A. BROWN: BROOKLYN MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR STABBING AND SHOOTING DEATH OF LONGTIME FRIEND
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the February 2003 murder of his longtime friend.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant was found guilty after a bench trial of intentionally murdering his longtime friend. The prison sentence imposed by the court was just punishment for a terrible and mindless crime.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Kevin Williams, 34, of 1113 East 73rd Street in Brooklyn. The defendant was convicted on November 1, 2005 of Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of A Weapon in the Second and Third Degree after a two-week non-jury trial before Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Cooperman, who sentenced him earlier today to 25 years to life in prison.
The District Attorney said that, according to trial testimony, on February 14, 2003 during a dispute in the victim’s home at 146-18 Huxley Street in the Rosedale section of Queens the defendant stabbed the victim, Shawn O’Neil, 31, numerous times in the face, neck and chest and then shot the victim once in the head with a 9mm. semi-automatic handgun before fleeing the scene.
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.