One Man Was Killed, Another Wounded in Broad Daylight Retaliation Shooting; One Defendant Received 15 to Life and the Other 13 Years
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that two members of the Hells Angels were sentenced to prison for a 2020 shooting in the Allerton area that left one member of the Pagans motorcycle gang dead and another wounded.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendants shot the victims in retaliation for a shooting outside the Hell’s Angels headquarters four months earlier. The defendants carried out this violence in a residential area, near a busy intersection in broad daylight. They pleaded guilty and now will serve time in prison.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendants, Frank Tatulli, 61, of Hollywood Avenue, the Bronx, and Sayanon Thongthawath, 32, of 53rd Street, Queens, pleaded guilty on November 16, 2023. On January 4, 2024, Tatulli was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree Murder and Thongthawath was sentenced to 13 years in prison and five years post-release supervision for first-degree Manslaughter, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas.
According to the investigation, on the afternoon of May 2, 2020 the defendants drove to 2522 Holland Avenue, where they shot at Francisco Rosado, 51, striking him five times, and Javier Cruz, 42, wounding his arm. The shooting was in retaliation for gunfire outside the Hell’s Angels headquarters on Longstreet Avenue on January 2, 2020.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Anthony Velez of the Bronx Homicide Squad and NYPD Detective Michael Gersch of the 49th Precinct for their work in the investigation.
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