Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Photo by Mary Altaffer/AP
Raheen Joye, 43, of The Bronx, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree attempted murder. The sentence was announced by District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and was imposed by Supreme Court Judge Jane Tully. This comes following an incident in 2022 where Joye fired upon New York City Police Officers, wounding one.
“Police officers put their lives on the line every day while responding to all kinds of disputes. Luckily, Officer Orlando Adorno and the other responding officers were not seriously injured or killed by this defendant’s decision to open fire on police,” said DA Gonzalez. “Today’s lengthy sentence holds him accountable for his actions.”
The sequence of events leading to Joye’s arrest began on the morning of Dec. 21, 2022, at an apartment on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Following an argument with his girlfriend that escalated to physical damage of property, Joye’s girlfriend called 911.
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