Victim Shot in Hail of Bullets on Claremont Street
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Brooklyn man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to Attempted Assault in the first degree for wounding a man he wrongly believed had been involved in his friend’s murder.
District Attorney Clark said, “The senselessness of this retaliatory shooting cannot be overstated. The defendant and his accomplices fired numerous shots at a group they believed had fatally shot the defendant’s friend, but the group had no connection to the murder. Now he will spend years of his life in prison after the criminal justice system has held him accountable.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Wilfredo Solano, 28, of Brooklyn, was sentenced today to seven years in prison plus five years post-release supervision for Attempted Assault in the first-degree by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Timothy Lewis. He pleaded guilty to that charge on December 11, 2024.
According to the investigation, on June 1, 2023, at approximately 8:15 p.m., in the vicinity of 1311 College Avenue in Claremont, Solano along with Shameek Parker, 23, of the Bronx, and unapprehended individuals fired at least 10 shots from at least four firearms at three men riding Citi Bikes. Solano himself fired three times at point blank range. A 19-year-old man was struck in the knee. Solano, Parker, and the other shooters fled the scene. The incident was recorded on video. The night before the incident occurred, Solano’s friend Antoine Strong, 21, was fatally shot at the same location by individuals riding Citi Bikes. The people Solano shot at had no connection to Strong’s murder; two defendants are awaiting trial in that case.
Shameek Parker pleaded guilty to Attempted Assault in the first-degree on January 16, 2025 and will be sentenced on February 13, 2025.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Daniel Nunez of the 44th Precinct for his work on the case.
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