A New York City councilman says a Queens judge showed a “stunning lack of judgment” when he freed a career criminal who shot and wounded two people, including a police officer, on Tuesday. .
Councilman Robert Holden, a Democrat, is urging Mayor Eric Adams to ask Queens Criminal Court Judge Edward Daniels to resign for releasing Gary Worthy, 57, without bail in August on assault and burglary charges. are The New York Post.
According to the NYPD, Qual was already on life parole for more than a dozen prior convictions, including firearms possession and murder, robbery, burglary and drug possession.
Adams, a Democrat, appointed Daniels to the bench in April of this year.
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Councilman Robert Holden speaks during the Veterans Day Breakfast at Gracie Mansion on November 9, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
“Mayor Adams called Judge Daniels the best and the brightest and said public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity,” Holden said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “Yet Daniels’ rulings showed a stunning lack of judgment. Denying requests to detain someone with Worthy’s violent record does not reflect the integrity we need in our judges. Mayor Adams must act quickly to remove the judge he appointed before further violence occurs.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the mayor’s office and the Office of Court Administration for comment.
Capable was engaged in a shootout with officers responding to reports of armed robberies in Queens on Tuesday, according to authorities.
Gary Worthy held up two local businesses, shooting and wounding an NYPD officer and an innocent bystander. (NYPD)
A pair of officers in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens tried to approach the man, tell him to stop, but the man took off and fired a shot at one officer, hitting the officer in the thigh, police said. I started. The officer, Rich Wong, returned fire, killing Worthy.
Officials said Wong is expected to survive. A 26-year-old woman was also injured in the leg during the exchange of fire but is expected to survive, police said.
Qual was arrested less than a week ago for allegedly possessing drugs and resisting arrest but was later released from custody. He was also wanted in three other gunpoint robberies this year, police said.
Adams said the handling of Worthy’s previous charges indicates a failure of the city’s criminal justice system.
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Adams wrote on social media, “While we are grateful that he will be on the mend, we are also outraged that a repeat offender who previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has 7 arrests since 2021 Chuckie, was free tonight to commit two robberies and ultimately shoot two people.”
Christina Shaw of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
