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Man sentenced to 25 years for Bed-Stuy shooting rampage

May 10, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Cush Wright-El. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn DA’s Office
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Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Tuesday announced that a 27-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for striking three people after opening fire on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street.
 
“It is truly remarkable that more innocent people weren’t injured or even killed when this defendant pulled out a gun and callously fired nine shots, in broad daylight, in a residential area,” said Thompson. “He deserves to spend a very long time behind bars for his outrageous and criminal behavior.”
 
The DA identified the defendant as Cush Wright-El, 27, of Baltimore, Maryland. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Suzanne Mondo on Tuesday. Wright-El was convicted of one count of second-degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of first-degree reckless endangerment following a jury trial last month.
 
Thompson said that according to trial testimony, on Oct. 1, 2014, at approximately 5:45 p.m., in the vicinity of Pulaski Street and Stuyvesant Avenue, Wright-El, dressed in a dark hooded sweatshirt, approached William Mayo, 57, and his nephew, Kayshawn Mayo, 16, as they played a game of chess and opened fire, striking the older man in the ankle and the teenager in the shoulder and back and grazing his head.
 
Furthermore, according to trial testimony, Wright-El then ran down the street and continued firing, striking bystander Judith Daniel, 61, in the right leg, foot and left calf. William Mayo’s other nephew, Demetrious Mayo, 28, got into his car and followed Wright-El, allegedly ramming into him. Wright-El was arrested and a .40 caliber weapon was recovered in a hooded jacket. Nine shell casings were recovered at the scene of the shooting.  
—Information from the Brooklyn DA’s Office 


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