Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Manslaughter
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
sentenced to 12 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in 2015 on a street in Fordham Manor
in broad daylight.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant shot a 24-year-old man over a dispute
involving drugs. The defendant was on the run for two years but justice caught up with him and
he was sentenced today for the gun violence he carried out on our streets.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Kadeem Carty, 26, of 2605 Grand Avenue, was
sentenced today to 12 years in prison and 5 years post-release supervision by Bronx Supreme
Court Justice James McCarty. The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree Manslaughter on
March 20, 2019 before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho.
According to the investigation, on September 20, 2015, at 194th Street and Briggs Avenue,
the defendant shot David Hooks, 24, twice in the lower back. Video surveillance of the day of the
incident shows the victim and another man chasing the defendant. Carty then turned around and
shot at the two men. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he died shortly
afterwards. The defendant fled and was arrested on November 20, 2017 in Pennsylvania.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detectives John
Feretti and Robert Klein of Bronx Homicide for their assistance in the case.
