People v. Reese

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Aiello, J.), rendered March'12, 1997, convicting him of murder in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Early in the morning of December 19, 1995, three men pointed a shotgun at the defendant and forced him into the apartment of Derrick Weeks. The defendant was tied up with others, and Weeks was taken from the apartment at gunpoint, after a demand for ransom was made. Some 10 to 15 minutes later, a security…