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Brooklyn youth jailed for
17 years for killing college
student at J’Ouvert
By Nelson A. King
A judge in Brooklyn on Friday, May
17 sentenced a Brooklyn youth to 17 1/3
years in jail for killing a 22-year-old college
student just before the Caribbean
J’Ouvert festival in the Crown Heights
section of Brooklyn began in 2016.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice
Donald Leo imposed the stiff sentence
on Reginald Moise, 20, for shooting
in the head, on September 5, 2016,
at point-blank range, Tiarah Poyau, a
graduate student in accounting at St.
John’s University in Jamaica, Queens.
Poyau died after she was taken to the
nearby Kings County Hospital in Central
Brooklyn.
Police said Moise was intoxicated at
the time of the shooting, but jurors
found him guilty of criminally negligent
homicide, reckless endangerment
and weapons possession in Poyau’s
shooting death. He was acquitted of the
more serious charge of murder.
“This is the most tragic case I’ve ever
come across,” said Justice Leo before
imposing the sentence on Moise. “In
one selfish act of idiocy, you destroyed
the incredibly bright future of a promising
young woman.”
The victim’s family had pleaded with
Justice Leo to sentence Moise to consecutive
— no concurrent — sentences,
as Moise’s lawyers had requested.
“Criminally negligent homicide is
a slap in the face your honor,” Poyau’s
mother, Valerie Brown, told the court
before Moise’s sentence. “It’s really an
insult, not just to me but to my whole
entire family. Please, I beg of you, please
see fit to give him the maximum that is
allowed for each charge.”
Before he was taken away in handcuffs,
Moise apologized to the victim’s
family.
“I’m sorry to Ms. Brown and the
Poyau family for all stuff y’all have been
going through,” he told the court.
After the sentence, Brooklyn District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement
that “this defendant fired four
shots during what was a joyous cultural
celebration, tragically killing Tiarah
Poyau, a completely innocent bystander
with a promising life ahead of her.
“It is a miracle that no one else was
struck,” he added. “Today’s sentence
delivered a measure of justice for Tiarah’s
heartbroken mother, family and
many friends, and a clear message that
gun violence will not be tolerated at
J’ouvert.”
In recent years, the Caribbean
J’ouvert festival — which precedes
the annual West Indian Day Carnival
Parade on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway,
considered the largest carnival parade
in North America — has been plagued
with violence.
In September 2015, Carey Gabay, 43,
a Jamaican former legal aide to New
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was shot in
the head in a crossfire. He was walking
home when gunfire erupted between
two rival gangs outside the Ebbets
Field Houses in Crown Heights during
the Caribbean J’ouvert celebration on
Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
Labor Day is celebrated as a public
holiday in America.
In July last year, a 12-member jury
found two men not guilty in Gabay’s
shooting death, but jurors found one
man, Micah Alleyne, 26, guilty of manslaughter.
Alleyne, of Jamaica, Queens, was
also found guilty of criminal possession
of a weapon, while Stanley Elianor, 27,
of Brooklyn, was convicted of reckless
endangerment.
Earlier in July 2016, a Brooklyn
Supreme Court jury acquitted another
defendant, Keith Luncheon, of Brooklyn,
of all charges – murder, manslaughter,
weapons possession and reckless
endangerment — in Gabay’s death.
But, during the same week, the jury
convicted another Brooklyn defendant,
Kenny Bazile, 33, of second-degree
manslaughter and criminal possession
of a weapon. He was cleared of the murder
charge.
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