ICYMI: Man Who Shot Officer Sentenced To Life In Prison

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

A Queens Village man was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without parole for the 2015 murder of NYPD officer Brian Moore and the attempted murder of officer Erik Jansen, according to a statement from Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

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

In the statement, Brown said that the sentencing was "more than appropriate under the facts of this case."

"The evidence of the defendant's guilt presented at trial was truly overwhelming," he said. "It is also fitting that the defendant will serve the maximum sentence allowed under the law as a message that we, as a society, will never forget his heinous and cowardly act."

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