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  • A Queens man has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars for the death of a 15-year-old boy who got off a Far Rockaway town bus in February 2018, the Queens District Attorney’s Office has announced. .
  • Atekel Donaldson, 26, of Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty in December to first-degree manslaughter and was later sentenced to 17 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision, the district attorney said Wednesday. American from Queens, Melinda Katz.
  • According to the charges, on February 8, 2018, shortly after 4 p.m., Donaldson approached 15-year-old Youssef Soliman as the teenager was getting off a bus on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway.

NEW YORK – A Queens man was sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars for the death of a 15-year-old boy who got off a city bus in Far Rockaway in February 2018, the district attorney’s office said. district of Queens. .

Atekel Donaldson, 26, of Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty in December to first-degree manslaughter and was later sentenced to 17 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision, the district attorney said Wednesday. American from Queens, Melinda Katz.

According to the charges, on February 8, 2018, shortly after 4 p.m., Donaldson approached 15-year-old Youssef Soliman as the teenager was getting off a bus on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway.

Donaldson shot Soliman twice, hitting him in the hand and chest, killing the teenager.

“A teenager’s life has been cut short insanely by gun violence, which continues to rob family, friends and loved ones from our communities. We cannot move until we end the scourge of illegal firearms on our streets,” Katz said.

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