Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the sentencing of Luis Ortiz to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing Shannon McKinney on January 1, 2012 and for shooting P.O. Kevin Brennan in the head on January 31, 2012. A jury found him guilty July 3, of Murder in the First Degree and Attempted Murder in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree and Menacing a Police Officer. Ortiz was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei, who also presided over the trial.

On January 1, 2012 at 1:45pm Luis Ortiz robbed and shot Shannon McKinney 6 times at close range, in front of 122-24 Siegel St, across from the Bushwick Gardens Housing Projects, killing McKinney. The shooting was captured on surveillance video.

On January 31, 2012, Officer Brennan and his partners responded to a call of shots fired at 140 Moore Street at about 9:10 pm. Brennan chased into 370 Bushwick Avenue, where Ortiz then shot Brennan in the head. The gun was recovered outside the apartment, where Ortiz was apprehended. His DNA was on the gun. This was also caught on surveillance video.

Ballistics evidence confirmed that the same gun that was used to kill McKinney was used to shoot PO Brennan.

The case was prosecuted by First Deputy Bureau Chief in the Investigations Bureau, Lewis E. Lieberman and Melissa Carvajal, Counsel in the Homicide Division. Ken Taub is Deputy of the Homicide Division.

(YWN Desk – NYC)