NEW YORK, NY (July 23, 2024) — Tyriek Skyfield, 31, of New Rochelle, was sentenced Monday to 136 months in prison for firing two shots at an individual, one of which hit a person, on a residential street in the Bronx on July 22, 2023.
Appearing before U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Skyfield pled guilty on January 3, 2024, to illegally possessing ammunition after a felony conviction for shooting and injuring a victim on a residential street in the Bronx in July 2023, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison (180 months).
According to court filings and statements made in court proceedings:
On or about July 22, 2023, at approximately 9:56 p.m., Tyriek Skyfield fired two shots with a handgun at Victim-1 near the intersection of Needham Avenue and East 223rd Street in the Bronx, New York. Surveillance video from a building overlooking the scene showed Skyfield brandishing a firearm at Victim-1 seconds before shooting at him.
Surveillance video then captured Skyfield fleeing down Needham Avenue and onto East 222nd Street. During a canvass of the scene of the shooting on the following day, officers from the New York City Police Department recovered a 9 mm Luger shell casing from one of the gunshots in the yard of a residential building near the shooting.
Skyfield was not permitted to possess ammunition because of prior felony convictions.
Investigative agencies included the New York State Police, the Special Agents and Task Force Officers of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and the New York City Police Department.
This case was handled by the Office’s General Crimes Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Adam Z. Margulies and Joseph H. Rosenberg were in charge of the prosecution.