People v. Leach

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

On March 20, 2008, shortly before 7:00 p.m., two shooters fired at and hit a parked sport utility vehicle (SUV) occupied by three young men, brothers who survived the onslaught unhurt. Two of them were able to see the attackers, whom they identified to the police as defendant Tawond Leach and his brother Derek. The victims had grown up and gone to school with the Leach brothers in the same Brooklyn neighborhood where this incident occurred. They told the police that defendant shot at the SUV using a silver…