NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — A Queens man was arraigned on Friday for charges related to a shooting in Jamaica last December that killed one person and injured three more, paralyzing two of them, the Queens District Attorney's Office said.
Eric Foster, 39, of Jamaica, was arraigned in an eight-count indictment charging him with murder, attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Video surveillance footage shows Foster getting into a white Volkswagen Jetta in his driveway at 3:11 p.m. on Dec. 22, which he later parked a half-mile away, according to the charges in the murder case.
Foster—wearing a dark-colored jacket, face covering, sweatshirt and red sneakers—walked one and a half blocks from where he parked and encountered Kenni Dunn, 29, and three other men around a 2019 Jeep Cherokee.
Allegedly, Foster walked past the quartet, reached into his jacket, pulled out a gun and shot the four men, the district attorney's office said.
The victims were taken to a local hospital and Dunn, who was shot in the right torso, was pronounced dead.
A 36-year-old man who was shot in the upper back remains partially paralyzed, and a 43-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to his back is paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet severed the 43-year-old's spinal cord, authorities said.
The final victim, 29, was shot in the arm.
"A cold-blooded shooting in broad daylight on a residential street cost a man his life and left three others seriously injured," Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. "We must continue fighting this plague of gun violence by doing everything we can to get illegal guns and the criminals who use them off our streets."
According to video footage, Foster returned home at 3:20 p.m. in his Jetta.
Prosecutors said that he left his house again carrying a large garbage bag to his car. Video footage shows the garbage bag, which contained a dark-colored jacket, face covering and sweatshirt, getting discarded on the side of the road in Brooklyn.
A search warrant was executed on Foster's home the next day. Police found three shotguns, two semiautomatic rifles, one bolt action rifle, ammunition and red sneakers, prosecutors said.
Investigators also recovered plastic bags containing cocaine and glassine envelopes containing heroin.
Friday's arraignment comes days after Foster was arraigned on a 39-count indictment charging him for possession of the drugs and guns found during the execution of the warrant.
