A Hempstead man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison at Nassau County Court in Mineola for shooting a cab driver in the face after he had gotten into an argument at a traffic light with a different cab driver last year.
Josiah Galloway
A Nassau County jury convicted Josiah Galloway, 23, in March of second-degree attempted murder, two counts of assault, criminal use of a firearm and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Galloway shot the cabbie about 10 minutes after he and another cab driver had gotten into an argument at the intersection of West Columbia Street and Main Street in Hempstead on May 15, 2008, Nassau prosecutors said. The argument started after several taxi cabs were parked at the intersection and one cab that was double-parked.
Galloway pulled up behind the double-parked cab and started honking his horn. One cab driver moved the double-parked cab to the opposite side of the street. Galloway yelled at the cab drivers before he left the area but returned shortly later, pulled up alongside the a different taxi cab, which was parked in front of the Long Island Railroad station, and shot the victim in the jaw.
The victim suffered multiple fractures, the loss of several teeth, and part of his jaw bone, as well as massive and permanent facial scarring.
“This was a shockingly cold-blooded and violent attack against an innocent man,” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a statement.
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“the gun violence needs to stop”
Criminals need to be stopped. If law abiding citizens were “allowed” their 2nd amendment right to defend themselves, they could have shot this criminal before he did his crime or at least spared us taxpayers from paying for 25 years of 3 hots and a cot.
Glad to see justice served. the gun violence needs to stop
Another savage in the clink….Pretty soon the jails will be so full of “these people” but the problem is, they go off reproducing and surviving off the tax payer that not only will the jail be full, but also the streets. Oh wait, that is already happening.