{"id":315462,"date":"2026-08-06T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:10:57","slug":"queens-men-sentenced-to-20-to-life-after-fatally-shooting-freeport-man-in-the-back-of-the-head-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315462\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Men Sentenced To 20-To-Life After Fatally Shooting Freeport Man In The Back Of The Head: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to District Attorney Melinda Katz\u2019s office, 25-year-old Michael Williams and 30-year-old Kevin Johnson were each convicted in June of one count of second-degree murder, one count of second-degree attempted murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/gardencity\/long-island-man-killed-nyc-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the killing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Queens judge Mary Bejarano sentenced Johnson to 20 years to life in prison and Williams to 22 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to District Attorney Melinda Katz\u2019s office, 25-year-old Michael Williams and 30-year-old Kevin Johnson were each convicted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-315462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315462","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=315462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}