{"id":290104,"date":"2026-07-08T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:39:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-pleads-guilty-to-fatally-shooting-valley-stream-man-outside-queens-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290104\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Pleads Guilty To Fatally Shooting Valley Stream Man Outside Queens Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for fatally shooting a Valley Stream resident outside a church in Queens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Joseph Gilbert Stevens, of The Bronx, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/valley-stream-man-fatally-shot-in-queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot 49-year-old Richard Carter<\/a> while a funeral was taking place on April 10.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Multiple bullets struck Carter in the torso near the intersection of Merrick Boulevard and Sayres Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stevens was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/arrest-made-in-fatal-shooting-of-valley-stream-man-in-queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> the following day. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He faces 24 years in prison when sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is also expected to face five years of post-release supervision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for fatally shooting a Valley Stream resident outside a church in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-290104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}