Posts Tagged ‘ATTEMPTED MURDER’

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Stephen Giraldo was indicted by a Queens grand jury on attempted murder, assault and other charges for allegedly hitting his wife with his SUV and then stabbing her with a knife. The couple’s three children were in the vehicle at the time of the incident, which occurred in…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Edward Huerta was arraigned today on charges of attempted murder and other crimes for allegedly attacking his roommate and cousin in their Corona residence. The 19-year-old female victim suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on her brain, among other injuries, after Huerta allegedly assaulted her with a baseball…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Lamale McRae was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of attempted murder and other crimes for allegedly shoving onto the train tracks at the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenue subway station a man waiting on a train and an eight-year-old bystander. District Attorney Katz said: “As alleged, this defendant…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Orlando Plummer, 47, has been convicted of attempted murder for shooting a 44-year-old pedestrian in the stomach and robbing him of his backpack on the Horace Harding Expressway in Corona, Queens. The defendant followed the victim, who years earlier had dated the mother of the defendant’s child,…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced today that Malcom White, 44, has been convicted by a jury of attempted murder for shooting his 34-year-old wife during a dispute at a hotel in Jamaica, Queens in March 2020. District Attorney Katz said, “I am committed to holding accountable those who perpetuate acts of brutal violence…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Otis Moore, 32, a reputed member of the Redfern Rowdy Gang and persistent felon, has been sentenced to a term of 22 years-to-life in prison. The defendant was convicted by a jury following a nine-day trial last month for a May 2020 gang-related shooting in the Dix…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jeffrey Thurston, 28, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for shooting a former student athlete outside a deli on Springfield Boulevard in July 2020. The defendant was also sentenced for a burglary related to a March 2020 incident involving an estranged girlfriend and her son,…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Supreme Gooding, 18, and Robert Whack, 30, have been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on attempted murder, assault, robbery and other charges. The defendants allegedly attacked two elderly women on two separate occasions in March and took their pocketbooks. The…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Donny Ubiera, 32, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and other crimes for three attacks last week. Ubiera allegedly used a nail-embedded board to strike a man inside a Roosevelt Avenue bakery on June 8, 2022. The defendant is also accused of knife attacks on two…

Queens District Melinda Katz announced today that James Fitzgerald, 55, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for nearly killing his estranged girlfriend. The defendant attacked the woman in front of a Jamaica fish market, kicking and punching her then using a wooden beam embedded with nails to continue the beating on May 16, 2020. District…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Otis Moore, 32, a reputed member of the Redfern Rowdy Gang, has been convicted by a jury of attempted murder and other crimes for a gang-related shooting on May 17, 2020 in the Dix McBride Apartments, also referred to as Pinkfern in Far Rockaway, Queens. District Attorney…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jahsheen Osbourne, 21, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the January 2020 unprovoked shooting of a UPS delivery driver in Woodside, Queens. The 15-year-veteran UPS worker was attempting to parallel park the vehicle as the defendant waited while in the passenger seat of a stolen Mercedes.…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that William Blount, 57, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on attempted murder, assault and other charges. The defendant allegedly attacked a woman as she entered the subway – kicking her down the stairs and hammering her in the head…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jamia Dean, 20, and a sixteen-year-old juvenile have been charged with attempted murder, assault and other crimes for allegedly hitting and stabbing two teenagers on Rockaway Boulevard on March 15, 2022. The teens sought refuge inside John Adams High School. District Attorney Katz said, “This defendant and…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Terrence Harry, 40, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted at trial of attempted murder. The defendant stabbed two men inside a residential garage in South Ozone Park in September 2017.  District Attorney Katz said, “The defendant’s unprovoked knife attack could have ended…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Chad Collie, 19, and Jayare Robinson, 18, have been charged with attempted murder and other crimes related to the shooting of an off-duty NYPD officer in the Arverne section of Far Rockaway around 10 p.m. on February 1, 2022.  Defendant Collie has been charged with attempted murder…

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Vernon Jeffers, 44, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder. The defendant shot the victim in her home in January 2019. District Attorney Katz said, “This defendant was sentenced for using a deadly firearm to twice shoot his then-girlfriend in…