WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005

D.A. BROWN: BROOKLYN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER IN 1998 FRESH MEADOWS SHOOTING

To Serve 24 Years in Prison

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in Fresh Meadows in October 1998.

District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has acknowledged that he shot the victim, a single father who held down two jobs, and has waived his right to appeal. The penalty of a long term of imprisonment to be imposed by the court is more than warranted.”

District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Jose Feliciano, 30, of 205 Scholes Street, Brooklyn. The defendant pleaded 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 24 years in prison at sentencing on January 13, 2006.

The District Attorney said that the defendant admitted that on October 11, 1998, at Francis Lewis Boulevard and Horace Harding Expressway, he shot the victim, Steven Julian, 22, of Hempstead, Long Island. The victim, who was struck in the chest and leg by rounds from a .380 automatic handgun, later died of his injuries.

Assistant District Attorney Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Chief, of the District Attorney's Homicide Trials Bureau is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.