{"id":57474,"date":"2025-12-01T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:58:11","slug":"andre-brown-sentenced-to-time-served-after-attempted-murder-sentence-was-vacated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57474\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Brown sentenced to time served after attempted murder sentence was vacated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andre Brown, who faced the prospect of going back to prison after his attempted murder conviction was reinstated in 2024, was ordered Monday to time served. <\/p>\n

Brown was sentenced to 40 years in prison for allegedly shooting and wounding two teenage boys, O\u2019Neill Virgo and Shawn Nicholson, on the streets of the Bronx in 1999. Nicholson was left paralyzed. Virgo was seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Brown, who maintains his innocence, spent 23 years in prison before having his conviction overturned on a technicality in 2022. <\/p>\n

His attorney did not immediately return requests for comment on Monday. <\/p>\n

In 2022, Brown won an effort to have his conviction overturned, citing ineffective assistance of counsel. Upon his release, he moved to Connecticut to start a new chapter with his wife, whom he met when he was a teenager, and two children, and to work in a youth mentorship program.<\/p>\n

But on Christmas Eve 2024, prosecutors won an appeal to reinstate Brown\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s really scary understanding that the metal cuffs may go back on, going back behind the bars, and ultimately leaving my family,\u201d he told NBC New York<\/a>. “I\u2019m terrified. I\u2019m actually terrified of going back behind those walls.”<\/p>\n

Brown was supposed to turn himself in to Bronx Criminal Court in March. But prosecutors agreed to a delay while Brown applied for and emergency clemency with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The petition is still currently under review.<\/p>\n

“There are three victims in this case, I am the third victim no one ever speaks about, as I did not commit this crime,\u201d Brown previously told NBC New York<\/a>. \u201cBut putting that aside at this time, I am no risk to society.”<\/p>\n

The families of Virgo \u2014 who passed away several years ago \u2014 and Nicholson have lambasted Brown’s release.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Matt Lavietes is a reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n

Minyvonne Burke contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Brown, who faced the prospect of going back to prison after his attempted murder conviction was reinstated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-57474","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\/57474","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=57474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}