{"id":54953,"date":"2025-11-28T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:41:28","slug":"queens-uncle-convicted-of-gunning-down-his-nephew-in-petty-fight-over-cash-for-bbq-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54953\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens uncle convicted of gunning down his nephew in &#8216;petty&#8217; fight over cash for BBQ food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Queens madman has been convicted of gunning down his nephew in a \u201cpetty dispute\u201d about who was paying for the chicken at a family BBQ.<\/p>\n<p>Durran Morgan, 40, was initially thrown out of the family home in St. Albans over his fight with nephew Chevaughn Millings, 25, about who was paying for the food at the Memorial Day gathering in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>But Morgan then stormed back in \u2014 and shot the younger relative 10 times, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37784914\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/chevaughn-millings-25-said-gotten-116309796.jpg\" alt=\"A man named Chevaughn Millings making a hand gesture.\" class=\"wp-image-37784914\"  \/>Chevaughn Millings, 25, was shot 10 times by his uncle in the petty dispute. Gofundme<\/p>\n<p>The gunman\u2019s 20-year-old niece was also \u201chit multiple times in the leg and grazed by a bullet on her forehead,\u201d prosecutors said, without otherwise identifying her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe survived and is continuing to recover,\u201d prosecutors said, while Millings died from bullets to the legs and body.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37784912\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/chevaughn-millings-25-said-gotten-116309797.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Chevaughn Millings, a man with a short beard, wearing a white patterned suit jacket with black lapels, a black turtleneck, and black pants, standing in a room with light blue walls and hardwood floors.\" class=\"wp-image-37784912\"  \/>Millings\u2019 family set up a GoFundMe in his name.  Gofundme<\/p>\n<p>Morgan fled to Georgia \u2014 but later returned to New York to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>It took a jury less than two hours of deliberation on Wednesday to convict Morgan of murder and assault. He faces up to 50 years to life in prison at sentencing in Queens Supreme Court on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat should have been a joyous holiday weekend turned to complete tragedy when the defendant shot and killed his 25-year-old nephew over a petty dispute about food payment,\u201d Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGun violence is never the answer to any argument.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens madman has been convicted of gunning down his nephew in a \u201cpetty dispute\u201d about who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news","14":"tag-shootings","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54953","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=54953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}