QUEENS - A man who shot a rookie NYPD officer in Queens in April of last year was sentenced on Monday, officials said. On April 5 of last year, Devin Spraggins shot NYPD officer Brett Boller in broad daylight in Jamaica near the intersection of 161st Street and Jamaica Avenue. Braggins was sentenced to 39 years to life.

A 24-year-old criminal who shot an NYPD cop last year after a scuffle on an MTA bus was hit with a prison sentence of 39-years-to-life in Queens court on Monday.

A menacing Queens bus rider convicted of shooting a rookie NYPD cop after an altercation with a fellow passenger was sentenced to at least 39 years in prison on Monday as a courtroom filled with angry cops looked on.

Devin Spraggins stood emotionless inside a Queens courtroom Monday as state Supreme Court Justice Judge Kenneth Holder ordered him to serve 39 years to life behind bars after being found guilty of attempting to murder a police officer last year.

A Queens man was sentenced Monday to 39 years to life in prison for the attempted murder of an NYPD officer from Hauppauge, according to the Queens district attorney. Boller was shot in the leg in 2023 while responding to a fight on a bus in Queens. The officer was just three months on the job.

The gunman who shot and injured a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer was castigated by a judge and given a multi-decade prison sentence on Monday. Devin Spraggins, 24, was convicted of attempted murder after opening fire at an officer on a city bus in April 2023.

Dozens of officers packed a Queens criminal courtroom on Monday where Devin Spraggins was sentenced to 39 years to life.