usanewsonline.com desk: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Micah Brown, 24, has been convicted  at trial of murder and other crimes. The defendant stabbed a 25-year-old man multiple times during a  February 2018 confrontation near a Jamaica, Queens, bus stop.  

District Attorney Katz said, “An argument should never escalate to such levels of brutality. The  defendant used an ice pick to stab a young man multiple times – killing him – during a confrontation over  transport. Violence is a corrosive presence in our neighborhoods that we must reject. After a two-week trial  conducted by my office, a jury weighed all the evidence presented at trial and found the defendant guilty of  committing this brazen attack.”  

A jury found Brown, of 147th Avenue in Rosedale, Queens, guilty yesterday following a two-week long trial. The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon  in the fourth degree. Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise, who presided at trial, set sentencing for  June 23, 2022. At that time, Brown faces 25 years-to-life in prison.  

According to the trial testimony, at approximately 11:50 p.m. on February 25, 2018, the defendant  was operating a blue “dollar van” that was parked at the Jamaica Bus Terminal in Jamaica, Queens, when  the 25-year-old victim Anthony Akeem Teil approached and requested a ride. The defendant refused but did  allow other passengers to board the van. This rejection triggered an angry exchange between the two men.  

Continuing, said the DA, the pair argued until the defendant walked around to the driver’s side of  the passenger van, opened the door and retrieved an ice pick from inside the vehicle. He tucked the sharp  object inside his sweatshirt, walked back around the van and approached Mr. Teil to continue the argument.  The exchange escalated to a physical altercation and then Brown pulled out the ice pick and plunged it into  Mr. Teil’s head and chest multiple times.  

According to trial testimony, after stabbing the victim the defendant got back inside his van and  drove away. Mr. Teil, who had the ice pick lodged in the side of his head, attempted to collect his belongings  but collapsed on the sidewalk. He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead from puncture  wounds to his heart.  

Assistant District Attorney Courtney Charles, of the DA’s Homicide Bureau, prosecuted the case  with the assistance of Assistant District Attorneys Suzanne Bettis and Christine McCoy, also with the  Homicide Bureau, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Peter J. McCormack III and John  Kosinski, Senior Deputy Bureau Chiefs of Homicide, Karen Ross, Deputy Bureau Chief, and under the  overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.