People v. Montes

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered May 10, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of seven years, affirmed.

On June 3, 2004, in response to a 4:00 a.m. radio communication of “shots fired,” police found Robinson “Tito” Lopez dead behind a building at 1952 Second Avenue. The medical examiner found that Lopez had died from multiple gunshot wounds that had perforated his vital organs.

*587Eyewitness testimony established that, immediately before the shooting, Lopez was…