Flatbush man sentenced for 2015 Nostrand Avenue bodega shooting
A 31-year-old Flatbush man has been sentenced to 23 years to life in prison for fatally shooting another Flatbush man following a fight inside a neighborhood bodega nearly two years ago, announced Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Wednesday, January 4.
According to trial testimony, at around 2:40 p.m. on January 27, 2015, the defendant – Herman Lancaster – fired his gun eight times, striking the victim – 42-year-old Kerwin Craigwell – once in the back after an argument inside Adrian Deli & Grocery on Nostrand Avenue.
The shooting started inside the store and the unarmed victim was struck on the sidewalk after slipping on snow, according to evidence.