Syracuse, NY - A Syracuse man was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison for a couple of incidents involving illegal handguns. Anthony R. King, 22, of Kenmore Avenue, pleaded guilty June 22 to first-degree assault for the shooting of another man Sept. 12. Authorities said Roddell Whitehead and some friends were leaving a home on South Avenue when...
Syracuse, NY - A Syracuse man was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison for a couple of incidents involving illegal handguns.
Anthony R. King, 22, of Kenmore Avenue, pleaded guilty June 22 to first-degree assault for the shooting of another man Sept. 12.
Authorities said Roddell Whitehead and some friends were leaving a home on South Avenue when a man approached, asked if they had any marijuana, pulled a gun and shot Whitehead twice. King was later identified as that gunman.
His guilty plea in that assault case followed a jury trial in which King was found guilty of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon - but acquitted of menacing a police officer – involving allegations he pointed a loaded handgun at an Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputy outside the Fusion restaurant and nightclub in North Syracuse Sept. 28.
Assistant District Attorney Kari Armstrong said the gun recovered with King’s arrest at the nightclub was not the same weapon used in the earlier shooting.
State Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti today sentenced King to 10 years in prison for the assault conviction and a concurrent penalty of 3 ½ years for the weapons possession charge.