People v. Mejia

Appeal by the defendant from a *676judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lakritz, J.), rendered July 15, 1988, 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.

The defendant shot and killed a co-worker who allegedly had threatened to stab him. By the defendant’s own account, he proceeded to the victim’s work-station with his gun after the victim had menaced him from afar with a screwdriver. The defendant pulled out his gun and shot the victim four times…