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- A grandmother was sentenced to 23 years in prison for fatally shooting her grandson’s father at their Queens home in July 2020, according to prosecutors.
- Suzette Olin, 68, was sentenced Wednesday after being sentenced in March to 23 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision for first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
- A subsequent investigation revealed that three days before the shooting, Olin’s daughter filed a domestic incident report with police alleging that Ifil broke down a door in her apartment. Police responded and body camera footage showed the door broken. The bride did not appear to be hurt.
NEW YORK — A grandmother was sentenced to 23 years in prison for fatally shooting her grandson’s father in their Queens home in July 2020, according to prosecutors.
Suzette Olin, 68, was sentenced Wednesday after being sentenced in March to 23 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision for first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
According to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, citing trial testimony, on July 26, 2020 around 2 p.m. a neighbor called 911 after finding Shaka Ifil, who was 40 at the time, in the floor of his 91st Avenue apartment with a gunshot wound to the back.
Ifil, who was the boyfriend of Olin’s daughter and had a child with her, told police that his girlfriend’s mother shot him, according to trial testimony. He died later that day at a local hospital due to gunshot wounds.
Security camera video showed a woman apparently smoking a cigarette getting out of an Access-A-Ride car service vehicle near Ifil’s home at around 1:51 p.m. July 26, 2020 and then leaving. home at 2:01 p.m., according to trial testimony. The woman was identified as Olin, and DNA testing of a cigarette butt found in her apartment linked her to the location.
A subsequent investigation revealed that three days before the shooting, Olin’s daughter filed a domestic incident report with police alleging that Ifil broke down a door in her apartment. Police responded and body camera footage showed the door broken. The bride did not appear to be hurt.
