Russel Timoshenko was a 23-year-old NYPD officer when he was shot after pulling over a stolen car in Brooklyn. He died five days after the shooting. File photo
The former Far Rockaway man currently serving life in prison for shooting and killing NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko was sentenced to another 25 years to life in prison for the attempted murder and robbery of a Queens man in 2007, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said last week.
The shooting for which Dexter Bostic, 40, was just sentenced occurred less than 20 hours before he fatally shot Timoshenko in Brooklyn, the DA noted.
“Today’s sentence ensures that the defendant – a dangerous predator who has been convicted of shooting an unarmed man and an on-duty police officer within 24 hours – will spend the rest of his life in prison and never again see the light of day,” Brown said in a prepared statement.
Last week’s sentencing by Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak followed a four-week jury trial and Bostic’s conviction in July of attempted murder, assault, robbery, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of stolen property.
According to trial testimony, Carl Field, who was 20 years old at the time, was talking to a friend at the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and 109th Drive just before 5 a.m. on July 8, 2007, when a gray Porsche Cayenne being driven by Robert Ellis, 40, also of Far Rockaway, stopped at the intersection and exited the vehicle, holding a silver .45-caliber handgun, and began shooting, the DA said. Field attempted to run but was shot once in the leg, and the bullet shattered his femur and caused him to collapse to the ground, according to Brown.
Bostic then approached Field and demanded money. Field handed over $1,800 in cash, a chain and the keys to his vehicle. Bostic and Ellic then fled in the Porsche, the DA said.
Ellis, who was convicted of the same criminal charges as Bostic following a jury trial, was sentenced this past July to 25 years in prison. The sentence was ordered to be served consecutive to the 15-year prison sentence he was already serving for a weapons possession conviction stemming from the killing of Timoshenko.
In that case, the stolen black BMW sports utility vehicle in which Ellis, Bostic and another individual were riding in was pulled over by Timoshenko, 23, and Officer Herman Yan 27, when it was noticed that the license plate on the car had been reported stolen. As the two officers approached the vehicle, they were shot at multiple times – including by the gun used the day before to shoot Field, the DA said.
Timoshenko died five days later from the wounds he suffered in the attack. Yan, who was also severely hit, survived.
