ICYMI: Man Who Shot Massapequa Officer Found Guilty Of Murder: DA

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Massapequa Patch:

A Queens Village man was recently convicted for the 2015 murder of NYPD officer Brian Moore and the attempted murder of officer Erik Jansen, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Demetrius Blackwell, 37, was found guilty of first degree murder, first degree attempted murder and second degree criminal possession of a weapon after a three-week jury trial, the DA said.

He will be sentenced on December 12. Blackwell faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

"The evidence of the defendant's guilt presented at trial was truly overwhelming. The jury fairly weighed all the evidence offered by both sides before concluding– unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt – that the defendant deliberately fired a weapon at the two police officers without provocation or warning, killing one of them," Brown said. "It is likely that he will never again taste another day of freedom."

In 2015, Massapequa native Moore, 25, and his partner, Jansen, then 30, were on patrol when they saw Blackwell, then 35, adjusting something on his waistband in Queens. The two plainclothes officers rode alongside him in their police vehicle to question him. When Moore said, "Police, you got something?"

Blackwell responded, "Yeah, I got something," according to the DA.

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