A “Regulation & Order” actor was sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars for the “calculated,” revenge-fueled homicide of a rival in Queens — with the sufferer’s tearful father slamming the killer as “a monster.”
Isaiah Stokes, who appeared on hit authorized drama in addition to “Boardwalk Empire,” didn’t present regret for killing Tyrone Jones, who authorities mentioned was shot almost a dozen occasions inside his parked automobile on Feb. 7, 2021.
Jones’s weeping father laced into the actor throughout an emotional sufferer impression assertion on the Friday sentencing.
“I can keep in mind the day that my son was introduced into this world – a contented father I used to be. TJ was enjoyable…a loving uncle and nephew. What I don’t wish to keep in mind, Isaiah Stokes, is the day that you simply determined to homicide my son,” Tyrone Jones Sr. mentioned.
“TJ didn’t die from a automobile accident or a illness, however by the palms of a monster,” the devastated father continued by means of tears.
Stokes, 45 – who additionally data and performs music underneath the identify I$AIAH – had a four-month-long vendetta towards Jones, 37, after the youthful man threw him out of his birthday celebration throughout a conflict in October 2020, prosecutors mentioned.
The actor hooked up a GPS monitoring gadget to Jones’ automobile and stalked him for greater than per week earlier than the broad-daylight, caught-one-camera homicide, in accordance with the DA’s workplace.
“You deliberate and thought of how and what you was going to do to finish TJ’s life, Isaiah Stokes. Was it that severe that you simply needed to pump 11 bullets into TJ’s physique?” his father cried in courtroom, whereas gazing his solely son’s killer.
Stokes was convicted of second diploma homicide within the case, together with two counts of legal possession of a weapon, however started attempting to argue the deserves of the case in the course of the Friday sentencing, prompting Choose Kenneth Holder to rebuke him.
“Take heed to me. You have been convicted, so you have to speak to me about why I ought to have some mercy on you within the sentence – that’s all I want to listen to from you. I don’t wish to hear about any motions – that’s all achieved,” Holder mentioned in the course of the continuing.
“You’re not a lawyer and albeit, you don’t know what you’re speaking about,” the decide mentioned at one level, to which Stokes responded, “I do know precisely what I’m speaking about.”
Holder, fed up, took purpose at Stokes’ performing profession.
“I do consider that you simply thought staying in jail so long as attainable would do wonders to your film profession as soon as you bought out, however right here is the issue…you’re not getting out.
“No matter film you watched to plan this killing, you clearly watched the bootleg model, as a result of nobody might deliberately plan a homicide and carry it out as stupidly as you probably did,” the decide continued, and added that Stokes was “extra responsible than anybody I’ve ever seen on this courtroom.”
The 2021 homicide stripped the sufferer’s father of his “coronary heart,” he informed The Put up.
Stokes didn’t take a look at the grieving dad, which “was a slap” within the face, Jones Sr. later mentioned outdoors the courthouse.
“You realize why he ain’t gonna look? As a result of I look similar to my son. My son seemed like me. There’s no distinction. You’re me, you’re my son,” he informed The Put up.
Later, Jones Sr. celebrated the sentence, and praised the ADA and NYPD for his or her “excellent” work on the case.
“Now he’ll by no means see the road once more, so I’m joyful. Similar to my son is gone, he’s gone. My son is within the floor, he’s going as much as a penitentiary someplace,” he mentioned.
Nevertheless, “it’s by no means going to be justice as a result of I’m by no means gonna get my son again,” the daddy mentioned, including that Jones ought to be remembered because the “‘King of R&B’” and a “loving individual” who “bought together with all people.”
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