Flatbush man gets 2 1/2 years for shooting
A 25-year-old father of three was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Monday for shooting six times down Newkirk Avenue at the corner of Newkirk and East 25 Street in Flatbush.
Murray Lawrence sat next to four family members, including his mother holding his 1-year-old son, as Judge Jack B. Weinstein sat across from them in Brooklyn’s Federal Court, deciding the term of his sentence.
“[This is a] very difficult case,” Weinstein said while looking down at a book of court documents. “The critical question on the table is … whether there can be a reintegration to the family.”