QUEENS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER IN FAR ROCKAWAY SHOOTING DEATH IN DECEMBER 2019

usanewsonline.com desk: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Michael Hall, 36, has pleaded guilty  to manslaughter for the December 2019 fatal shooting of a 45-year-old man in front of a Far Rockaway deli.

District Attorney Katz said, “As a result of his guilty plea, this defendant has taken responsibility for  the December 2019 shooting that caused the death of the victim in Far Rockaway. The defendant is now  expected to serve a lengthy prison term when he is sentenced later this month. We will not relent in our  efforts to hold drivers of crime accountable for their actions.”  

Hall, of Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Far Rockaway, Queens, pleaded guilty yesterday to  manslaughter in the first degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant. The defendant  will be sentenced on May 23, 2022. Justice Pandit-Durant indicated she will order Hall to be incarcerated to  21 years in prison.  

According to the charges, said DA Katz, at approximately 6:15 p.m., on December 18, 2019, the  defendant was standing in front of a deli convenience store near the intersection of Rockaway Beach  Boulevard and Beach 88 Street when he encountered 45-year-old Dion Gumby. Mr. Gumby approached the  convenience store and talked briefly with the defendant. At that time, the defendant produced a gun and fired  multiple times at the victim causing gunshot wounds to his abdomen, torso and arm. The victim succumbed  to his injuries at a local hospital. 

The defendant fled from the scene and was arrested approximately two weeks later.  

The investigation was conducted by Detectives Vincent Santangelo and David Pulice of the NYPD  Queens Homicide Division.  

Senior Assistant District Attorney Courtney Finnerty, of the District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau,  prosecuted the case, with the assistance of Assistant District Attorneys Kaitlyn Gaskin and Christina  Stephens, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Peter J. McCormack III and John Kosinski,  Senior Deputy Bureau Chiefs, Karen Ross, Deputy Bureau Chief, and under the overall supervision of  Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders. Press Release