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According to testimony, Marcos Huallpa was sitting inside his vehicle parked on this Staten Island road when he was shot at least twice and killed.
By Forum Staff
The Office of Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown was named as special prosecutor in the case of a 25-year-old Brooklyn man guilty of fatally shooting a Long island City man inside a parked vehicle on a South Beach, Staten Island, street in January 2015.
District Attorney Brown said, “In rendering its verdict, the jury found the defendant guilty of murder for walking up to a parked vehicle late at night and firing three shots at the vehicle’s occupant who had nowhere to run. As a result of his actions that night, the defendant now faces the prospect of being locked away for the rest of his life.”
The defendant was identified as Eduardo Morales, 25, of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Morales, who has been held without bail since his arrest in February 2015, was convicted of second-degree murder following a two-week jury trial.
According to trial testimony, as Marcos Huallpa, 46, of Long Island City, Queens, was sitting inside his vehicle parked in front of 188 Sand Lane at approximately 10:15 p.m. on January 20, 2015, Morales approached the vehicle and fired three shots, striking Huallpa at least twice and causing his death. Huallpa was transported to a local Staten Island hospital where he was pronounced dead. According to trial testimony, continued District Attorney Brown, Morales’ fingerprint was recovered on the getaway vehicle and he was apprehended three days later in Queens County in possession of the murder weapon, a .380 caliber Bersa Thunder.
Morales is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8, at which time he faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
