Posted: 12/21/2006 6:28:21 AM EDT
The fuckin' perp - Ronell Wilson
'JUSTICE SERVED' ON COPS' KILLER GUILTY OF S.I. HORROR & MAY FACE DEATH By STEFANIE COHEN
RESOLUTE: Widows Rose Nemorin (left) and Detective MaryAnn Andrews leave court yesterday with detectives-union boss Michael Palladino after the verdict against Ronell Wilson
December 21, 2006 -- Ronell Wilson, the gang-banger who heartlessly executed two undercover detectives to boost his street cred and steal a measly few hundred bucks, was convicted of murder yesterday by a federal jury - which now must decide if he should be put to death.
The packed courtroom was tense as the jury foreman announced - after deliberating nine hours - that Wilson, 24, murdered Detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin on March 10, 2003, during a Staten Island gun sting.
Nemorin's widow, Rose, nodded vehemently each time the word "guilty" was read in the Brooklyn courtroom - 10 times for 10 counts, including murder, carjacking and firearms charges.
Her husband, the father of her three children, had arranged to buy a Tec 9 pistol from Wilson for $1,200. Andrews had been posing as the buyer's brother-in-law.
Detective MaryAnn Andrews, Rodney Andrews' wife, wept but smiled as she sent a text message with news of the verdict to her sons. The women were flanked by rows of family members and cops. Many had attended every day of the trial.
As they walked from the courtroom, the widows embraced. They declined to speak to reporters.
Wilson betrayed no emotion. He glanced at his mother, Cheryl Wilson, a few times; she stared back at him with weary eyes, her arms folded tightly across her chest.
"He took it stoically," said his lawyer, Ephraim Savitt. "He expected the verdict. He's fighting for his life."
The jurors will reconvene on Jan. 10 to decide whether Wilson gets a lethal injection or life in prison. Lawyers will likely call mental health experts as well as relatives of both Wilson and the detectives.
"It's the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life, when he took [Rodney] and James for no reason," said Deputy Inspector Vincent Di Donato, their former commander in the Firearms Investigation Unit.
Unit member Al Hawkins said, "I feel like there's a God. I feel good that justice was served."
Wilson and another man, Jessie Jacobus, had decided that they would rob Nemorin - although they realized he might be a cop - instead of selling him a gun. The two thugs climbed into the back seat of Nemorin's car. A few moments later, Wilson shot both officers, then patted down their bodies for cash.
Wilson later boasted to his pals about the slayings.
When he was arrested a few days later, cops found handwritten rap lyrics in his pocket in which he bragged about the shooting.
The misspelled, barely intelligible lyrics read: "You better have that vast and dat Golock. Leave a 45 slogs in da back of ya head. Cause I'm getting dat bread, ain't goin stop to I'm dead."
Jacobus, a cooperating witness, pleaded guilty to murder in state court and faces a minimum of 15 years, as do two other gang members involved in the shooting - Mitchell Diaz and Omar Green.
Mayor Bloomberg called the officers "selfless heroes who put their lives on the line to get illegal guns off the streets of our city."
Before the verdict, Patricia Marion spoke of her son, Rodney Andrews.
"These people talk only talk about him the night he died," she said, pointing to the witness stand. "I'm the one who knew him when he was alive."
She said her son loved baseball, sang in a choir, and was in the Navy for three years.
She was surprised by his decision to become a cop, but told him: "God is with you wherever you go."
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You guys out there can pretty much figure how I feel about this low life savage piece of shit. Oh and once again there is no outrage from Rev. Al Sharpton and his followers in regards to the shooting deaths of two BLACK police officers.
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