People v. Colon

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lakritz, J.), rendered January 4, 1990, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On March 9, 1988, shortly after 5:00 A.M., the police responded to a radio transmission and found the victim lying in the street, "rolling on the ground” in pain with gunshot wounds. The police called an ambulance and asked the victim what happened and who shot him. Initially, the victim only…