Press Release

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Kevin Dubuisson was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for robbery, assault and menacing for an August 2025 carjacking incident that preceded an NYPD detective being shot in the hand and leg in a friendly fire incident. An 87-year-old woman and her 59-year-daughter were injured when Dubuisson rammed the stolen car into their vehicle.

District Attorney Katz said: “This defendant created nothing but havoc and mayhem on the streets of Whitestone on the morning of August 22, 2025. Kevin Dubuisson attempted to steal one car at a gas station, threatened to kill a female pedestrian, chased and assaulted a livery driver, then stole the cabbie’s car and injured two more women when he violently pulled out of a parking spot with the stolen vehicle. In the chaos of the situation, an NYPD detective was struck in a friendly fire incident as multiple responding units attempted to arrest this individual.”

Dubuisson, 29, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty in July to assault in the first degree, robbery in the first and second degrees, attempted robbery in the second degree and menacing in the second degree. Queens Supreme Court Justice Toni Cimino today sentenced Dubuisson to 17 years in prison to be followed by five years of post-release supervision.

DA Katz said that, according to the charges an investigation, on August 22, at approximately 8:40 a.m. Dubuisson walked into the parking lot of a Mobil gas station on Parsons Boulevard in Whitestone and entered the driver’s seat of a white Hyundai Santa Fe, which had its engine running and keys in the vehicle. An employee of the gas station walked toward the vehicle and ordered Dubuisson to get out. The defendant refused and a physical altercation ensued as the employee attempted to remove the keys from the vehicle.

Dubuisson then left the vehicle and the property.

A woman observed Dubuisson at the gas station from across the street. The defendant then approached her, threatened to kill her and put a fist in his waistband appearing to grip the handle of a firearm.

At approximately 8:50 a.m., at the intersection of 22^nd Road and the Whitestone Expressway Service Road, Dubuisson approached a man seated in a black Toyota Highlander and knocked on the window. The defendant told the driver to “give me the car” while holding what appeared to be a metal hook near the victim’s head. The man exited the vehicle, with his key fob in his pocket, and ran away from Dubuisson.

After running several blocks, the defendant caught up to the victim, pushed the man from behind and demanded that the man give him the keys to the Toyota. The victim threw the keys and observed Dubuisson pick them up and run in the direction of the vehicle.

At approximately 8:52 a.m. a woman was helping her 87-year-old mother get out of her vehicle, when the Toyota – now operated by the defendant – backed into her vehicle at a high rate of speed and caused the woman’s vehicle to strike both her and her elderly mother and knock them to the ground. The women were taken to the hospital for treatment with the older woman suffering from a broken wrist and other injuries.

At approximately the same time, Detective Corey Fisher – who was on duty but not in police uniform – observed Dubuisson running with a metal object and observed the Toyota operator on the side of the road and stopped to ask if the man needed help. Detective Fisher pursued the defendant and observed the defendant get into the Toyota and slam into the woman’s vehicle. The detective observed Dubuisson attempt to leave the area and placed his vehicle – a Chrysler Pacifica, with its police lights activated – in front of the Toyota. The defendant drove the Toyota into the side of the Chrysler, which caused the Toyota to stop.

The detective and his partner exited the unmarked police vehicle with their guns drawn and told the defendant to “stop the vehicle.”

Uniformed police officers arrived at the scene at that time and approached the Toyota with their guns drawn. Detective Fisher then heard gunshots from the vicinity of several of the uniformed officers and was struck in his right hand and left leg. He had two surgeries following the shooting to reattach tendons in his hand and place a metal rod in his leg. A third surgery was needed to re-attach the metal rod in his leg.

Assistant District Attorney Erin Mullins of the District Attorney’s Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau prosecuted the case, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Michael Whitney, Bureau Chief, Timothy Regan, Deputy Bureau Chiefs, and under the overall supervision of Chief Assistant District Shawn Clark.