by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 18 – Ricardo Ferguson is on trial for the murder on December 5, 2021 of Robert Brown, Sr. on Aqueduct Walk in The Bronx.
On June 13, 2024 before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Richard M. Berman, SDNY prosecutors presented the photo identification of Ferguson. Inner City Press was in the gallery, as were more than a dozen Bronxites, listening intently.
An NYPD detective narrated the identification by Luis Tejada, who reported said, "Aqueduct Walk Park, he shot my uncle" and pointed.
But the confidence question at the end was not filled out. Next up was a witness from HRA.
On June 14 defense counsel asked for an order to be able to reach Ferguson by phone - and got it.
On June 18, he was convicted, with sentencing set for October 9: "conviction of RICARDO FERGUSON, a/k/a “Maybach,” for the December 5, 2021, murder of Robert Brown, Sr. inside of the Aqueduct Park walkway in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. FERGUSON shot Brown in the head and attempted to steal crack cocaine and money from Brown’s pockets during a dispute over drug sales."
The case is US v. Ferguson, 22-cr-135 (Berman)
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