Revenge shooting gets man 45 years

A former Queens resident has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for the 2004 triple shooting outside of Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica in which one man was killed and two others wounded in apparent retaliation for the death of his brother.
“The sentence imposed is more than warranted and punishes the defendant for taking the law into his own hands,” said District Attorney Richard A. Brown. “He murdered one man and injured two others, including a passerby. Vigilantism can never be tolerated in a civilized society.”
Yusef N. Bey, 22, formerly of 147-20 230th Street in Springfield Gardens, was convicted after a jury trial last November of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael D. Aloise, who presided at trial, imposed the indeterminate sentence of 45 years to life in prison.
According to the trial testimony, Bey and another man approached Anthony Houston, 40, outside of I.S. 8 on 167th Street, in the early evening of February 24, 2004.
Armed with a 357-caliber handgun, Bey fired several shots in retaliation for the murder of his brother, Shahada Bey, who was killed in September 2003.
Terrence Burt, 35, who was standing with Houston, was shot twice and died. Houston suffered a wound to his hip and was pistol whipped. Dermoth Cross, 27, who was walking on the street suffered a wound to his calf.
Houston pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March 2006 in connection with the death of Shahada Bey and was sentenced in May 2006 to 10 years in state prison.