For Murder While Robbing
Bronx Smoke Shop Payne Sentenced
to 22 1/2 Years in Prison
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 23 – For shooting a man in
the head and killing in the
course of the armed robbery of
a smoke shop in the South
Bronx back on November 20,
2019, Anthony Payne was up for
sentencing on January 23, 2025
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Chief Judge Laura Taylor
Swain. Inner City Press was
there, thread:
Defense lawyer,
arguing for a 12 year
sentence, tells judge "No one
is watching this case." Inner
City Press as only media here
will live tweet, thread below
AUSA Domenic
Gentile: It's the people who
sold him the gun we want to
hear about this.
Defendant Anthony
Payne: I pray to God... I am
truly sorry [Victim's family
member hwre in the gallery
expresses skepticism] Judge:
Please stay quietly with me as
I reflect
Judge: The
sentencing guideline is 292
months to 300 months. On Nov
20, 2019 Mr Payne drove from
Brooklyn to a smoke shop in
the Bronx to rob it. He shot
the victim in the head.
Then he moved to Georgia.
Later he was arrested. He is
33. His mother died in 2016
Judge: He
worked at an airplane catering
company at JFK airport called
SkyChef. He says he needed
more money for his family. He
clearly has mental health
problems, but there has been
no treatment at the MDC.
The government
let him plead not the murder,
with a 25 year cap. The victim
had a daughter, who will grow
up without a father. Mr.
Payne, please rise... I
sentence you to 270 months [22
and 1/2 years] in prison.
More/poem on X
for Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is USA
v. Payne, 1:23-cr-345 (Swain)
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