A St. Albans man who shot a man he mistakenly thought had killed his rap star friend in a 1999 murder was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Corey Bussey, 26, of 114-36 209th St., received the 15-year-sentence in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens Friday, more than a year after he was found guilty of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the March 31, 1999 shooting death of Roderick Paget, 21.
Paget was shot six times in South Ozone Park three days after the shooting death of Rochdale Village native and rapper Raymond Rogers, who led the Lost Boyz group under his stage name Freaky Tah. Bussey believed Paget was connected with Freaky Tah's death, Brown said.
"The victim, Roderick Paget, was fatally wounded in an execution-style shooting in a terrible and tragic case of mistaken identity," Brown said in a statement. "The defendant, in the mistaken belief that the victim had been involved in the murder three days earlier of his friend, the rapper Freaky Tah, opened fire and took revenge on the wrong man."