Caribbean fugitive featured on America's Most Wanted to serve 50 years

A Jamaican fugitive, who was featured on the television show “America’s Most Wanted,” has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for a 2002 shooting that killed one man and injured another.

According to the Queens District Attorney’s Office, 43-year-old Danny Williams and 30-year-old Reginald Artis, approached the two victims in Queens on May 28, 2002.  Both opened fire, Williams with a shotgun and Artis with a handgun. The men, 22-year-old Roshawn Tate, 21-year-old  and Mark Belizaire, 21, were both hit.

Mr. Tate was killed and Mr.  Belizaire left permanently disabled.  Williams and Artis had been robbed earlier that day and believed their targets were somehow involved. The defendants were indicted for the shooting by a Queens County grand jury in  2004.

But it wasn’t until he had spent years in jail  that Williams was arrested on July 19, 2010, in Jackson, NJ, by the NYPD’s Fugitive Task Force and local police following two appearances on “America’s Most Wanted.