A Queens judge has added 25 years to the sentence length of a former Far Rockaway man already in prison for attempted murder and other charges for the shooting and robbery of a Queens man in July 2007.
Robert Ellis, 39, was convicted last month of one count of second-degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of second degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of fifth-degree criminal possession
of stolen property before Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory L. Lasak who, this week, imposed a determinate sentence of 25 years in prison. The sentence is to be served consecutive to the 15 year prison sentence Ellis is presently serving for a weapons possession conviction stemming from the July 2007 fatal shooting of NYPD Police Officer Russell Timoshenko in Brooklyn.
According to trial testimony, Carl Field, who was 20 at the time, was standing on the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and 109th Drive talking to a friend just before 5 a.m. on July 8, 2007, when a gray Porsche Cayenne being driven by Ellis stopped at the corner and his co-defendant – Dexter Bostic (who is awaiting trial) – al- legedly exited the vehicle, holding a silver .45-caliber handgun, and began shooting.
Field attempted to run but was shot once in his left leg, the bullet shatter- ing his femur and causing him to fall to the ground. It is alleged that Bostic then approached Field and demanded money. Field allegedly handed over $1,800 in cash, a chain and the keys to his vehicle. Bostic and Ellis then alleg- edly fled in the Porsche.
During the early morning hours of the following day, a stolen black BMW SUV in which Ellis and two other indi- viduals were riding in was pulled over in Brooklyn by Police Officers Russell Timoshenko, 23, and Herman Yan, 27, when it was noticed that the license plate on the car had been reported stolen from a Mitsubishi Outlander. As the two officers approached the vehicle, they were shot at multiple times – shots were fired during that attack by the gun used the day before to shoot Field.
Officer Timoshenko died five days later from the wounds he suffered in the attack. Officer Yan, who was also severely hit, survived.
In December 2008, Ellis was convicted in Brooklyn Supreme Court of three counts of second- degree criminal possession of a weapon and sentenced the following month to 15 years in prison.
