| In Trail for Shooting of
Homeless Man K2 Sale Denied Amid
Pandemic Fraud Adverse Interest
by
Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 12 รข€“ An unhoused man
shot in the ear in Harlem in
the summer of 2024 took the
witness stand Thursday before
Justice Cori Weston and a jury
in 100 Centre Street. Inner
City Press was there: Defense lawyer:
The man who shot you, did he
say he had a son you had been
selling K2 to? Witness: No...
There are a lot of people on
the street all the time, I
talk to 'em. Defense:
The chair, where did you fix
it? Witness: By the dumpster Defense: When
they showed you faces on the
computer, did you tell the
officer you couldn't see them?
Witness: He could tell. He was
there. I couldn't see no faces
on the computer. Defense: Did
he come to the hospital and
ask you about the man who shot
you? A: Yes Defense:
Did you tell the officer the
man who shot you have curly,
kinky hair? Witness: I said he
had nappy hair. After that I
went back to the shelter in
The Bronx to change clothes. I
still had on hospital scrubs.
Defense: Your prior case, what
kind of drugs? Witness:
Crack cocaine. All of them.
Defense: Your trespassing
cases - Witness: I went
through a building. Defense:
To use drugs? Witness: Yes.
Defense: And weapons cases?
Witness: Knife. Defense:
Your open cases- ADA:
Objection! Judge: Sustained. Judge: Any
more witnesses? ADA: No Judge:
Sorry I asked Jury leaves.
ADA: We have 2 more witnesses
on Monday. Judge: Then you can
sum up on Monday. Defense: I'd
rather on Tuesday. You know,
If I had more time, I'd write
a shorter letter. Judge:
Doesn't persuade
me Justice
Weston allowed the defendant
to meet with his son in the
courtroom after the jury - and
Inner City Press -
left. Two floors up,
Justice Ann Scherzer was
presiding over the reading of
a litany of stipulations
against a former NYCHA
employee charged with pandemic
unemployment fraud (the case,
like so many, grows out of the
raid on Cliffie Thompson's
Lower East Side ghost gun
factory). Two more stories above, Justice Robert Mandelbaum, with his jury and defendant out, expounded upon whether an adverse inference could be drawn to the failure to search a backpack with a gun and a pre-printed hospital form. It will be addressed in closing arguments. Inner City Press' coverage will continue.
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Friday, March 13, 2026
In Trail for Shooting of Homeless Man K2 Sale Denied Amid Pandemic Fraud Adverse Interest
