New York Daily News

Victim’s kin fume at killer’s silence

- Christina Carrega

RELATIVES OF a woman murdered execution-style by her jealous ex-boyfriend were outraged at his refusal to express remorse Friday at his sentencing to 25 years to life in prison.

“Why? Why won’t he say anything?” one sister of 23-year-old victim Michelle Marks cried out from the gallery of Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Lamont Wright, 55, was swiftly convicted by a jury earlier this month in the shooting death of Marks in June 2016.

But he declined to say anything before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht imposed the stiff sentence.

“If he was innocent, he should say something,” another relative in the audience said.

Instead, Wright appeared to be in a rush to exit the courtroom, trying to open the door to the holding cells with his handcuffed hand, pleading: “Let me go! Can I go?”

“The senseless murder of a promising young woman at the hands of this defendant was devastatin­g and cruel,” Brooklyn Distric Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.

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