Fifty years to life in prison. That’s the sentence handed down to the man convicted in the deadly shooting inside a Long Island grocery store in 2021 that wounded three workers, one of which died.
Rupert Wishropp"Justice. We get justice today."
Prosecutors say Wilson, who worked at the supermarket, was angry that his work transfer had not been granted. On the day of the shooting, he left the store abruptly and returned 40 minutes later with a gun, shooting Wishropp in the chest and injuring his two co-workers. "He fired it seven times. The carnage only stopped because he ran out of bullets," Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.His defense attorney, who tried to argue for a more lenient sentence because Wilson was shot in the head when he was 19 and suffered a traumatic brain injury, said his client had planned to apologize to the family on Thursday.
Wilson's mother did not speak to reporters, but in the past has argued that her son's disability should have played a part in his trial."If [Wilson] had changed his mind, I would have had my son and he would have had his freedom," Rupert Wishropp said. A store manager is dead and 2 others were wounded after what may have been a workplace dispute. Pei-Sze Cheng and Jonathan Dienst report.