{"id":5818,"date":"2025-10-17T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:23:10","slug":"career-crook-gets-25-to-life-for-stray-bullet-slay-of-woman-working-at-brooklyn-construction-site-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5818\/","title":{"rendered":"Career crook gets 25 to life for stray bullet slay of woman working at Brooklyn construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gun-toting career criminal whose stray bullet killed a 53-year-old grandmother<\/a>\u00a0working at a Brooklyn construction site has been sentenced to 25 years to life for the senseless killing.<\/p>\n

Malik Fryar, 34,<\/a> was looking for work at a Coney Island job site on Feb. 4, 2019 \u2014 the same site where the victim, Dorothy Dixon, 53, had gathered with her fellow laborers with a coalition called Black Economic Survival, prosecutors said at trial.<\/p>\n

Fryar had argued with the group a week earlier, telling them he he didn\u2019t want to see them at the site again or else, according to prosecutors.<\/a><\/p>\n

Officials said when Fryar saw them that day, he pulled up his car at the W. 33rd St. and Neptune Ave.<\/a> construction site \u2014 his wife in the passenger seat \u2014 and started looking around his trunk. One of the workers punched him, so he ran, waited a minute, and returned to his car \u2014 then took a gun out of his trunk and fired three shots at the crowd, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

One of those shots hit Dixon in the chest, fatally wounding her. Another shot hit another worker in the foot.<\/p>\n

Fryar\u2019s wife had moved to the driver\u2019s seat, drove away from the scene while Fryar ran home, prosecutors said. Police found the car abandoned about 5 miles away in Brighton Beach about a month later.<\/p>\n

Fryar went on the run, and cops found him more than five months later in a Lower East Side apartment, trying to escape through an air conditioner duct, officials said.<\/p>\n

He was convicted of second-degree murder last month after a jury trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Justice Phyllis Chu hit him with the 25-to-life sentence Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom didn\u2019t deserve what happened to her. He deserved everything he got,\u201d Dixon\u2019s daughter, Minnie Scott, told the Daily News on Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cI miss my mom every day. It\u2019s been a long six years. I\u2019ve been waiting for this every day. I\u2019m happy that justice is served.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dixon started working construction about a decade earlier. Before she left work the morning of the murder, she told Scott she\u2019d cook up a meal of pork chops and gravy<\/a> for her then 7-year-old granddaughter, who was feeling sick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a senseless act of violence that took the life of a hardworking woman, devastating her family. Dorothy Dixon was a mother of six and grandmother of many more who was just trying to earn a living when her life was viciously cut short,\u201d Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. \u201cGun violence is now at record lows in Brooklyn, and my office is committed to further driving down shootings and holding people such as this defendant responsible for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fryar, who was 27 at the time of the shooting, has a criminal record dating to at least 2012 that includes convictions for drug dealing, attempted possession of a forged instrument and attempted assault for his role in a nonfatal shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gun-toting career criminal whose stray bullet killed a 53-year-old grandmother\u00a0working at a Brooklyn construction site has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5421,5420,5424,9,24,63,5269,5423,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-5818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-construction-site","12":"tag-dorothy-dixon","13":"tag-island-job-site","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-prosecutors","18":"tag-senseless-killing","19":"tag-stray-bullet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}