BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- A Staten Island man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting at a taxi on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and striking a pregnant woman, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday.
Mark Munoz, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder on March 3.
Munoz was involved in a dispute with the taxi driver on June 26, 2023, prosecutors said. Munoz followed the taxi after a 21-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were picked up at the corner of 58th Street and Third Avenue in Sunset Park.
The defendant pulled alongside the taxi on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and opened fire, hitting the woman, who was two months pregnant, in the head, prosecutors said. The taxi driver drove straight to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where doctors saved the woman and her unborn child.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This was a terrifying and calculated act of violence carried out in the middle of the day on one of the city’s busiest highways. The defendant showed a complete disregard for human life when he opened fire on a moving vehicle, striking a young pregnant woman and endangering countless others."
Munoz fled to Staten Island and was arrested on May 24.
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