2 Proud Boys get 4 yrs. for E. Side brawl
Police have arrested the alleged lookout man in the stray bullet slaying of a Harlem man walking his dog after celebrating an anniversary with his husband and a big group of friends.
Detectives nabbed Ozjheir McClain, 19, at his home in upstate Syracuse on Monday and charged him with murder in the senseless killing.
Victim Winston McKay, 40, was walking pet puggle Milton, a present from his husband for McKay’s birthday two years ago, when he was shot near Amsterdam Ave. and W. 146th St. — four blocks from his home —about 2:20 a.m. June 10.
“I’m pissed at him but I think a relief came over me when they found him,” the victim’s husband, Terry Solomon, said of the accused lookout man Tuesday. “I’m angry but I’m relieved because now he can get justice.”
Earlier Tuesday, police described McClain as the gunman, but a criminal court complaint labeled him as the lookout, meaning Eric Bautista, 20, who’s still on the loose, allegedly pulled the trigger, aiming at a man McClain and Bautista were feuding with over marijuana.
A pair of far-right Proud Boys were sentenced to four years in prison each on Tuesday for beating members of a rival political group on the Upper East Side last year.
Self-proclaimed “Western chauvinists” John Kinsman and Maxwell Hare learned their fate from Justice Mark Dwyer in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The duo was convicted in August of attempted gang assault for a brawl near the Metropolitan Republican Club on Oct. 12, 2018.
Dwyer turned a deaf ear to bids for sympathy from Kinsman (inset top) and Hare (inset below) and likened their crime to World War IIera ideological violence.
“I know enough about history to know about what happened in Europe in the 1930s when political street brawls were allowed to go ahead without any type of check from the criminal justice system,” Dwyer said.
The judge, citing the emotionally charged political climate, said it’s important to punish such behavior, “especially at this time.”
Dwyer did concede that Antifa may have baited the Proud Boys the night of the attack at E. 82nd St. and Lexington Ave.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said Hare, 27, seriously injured his victims and lied about his conduct and his beliefs on the witness stand.
Hare and Kinsman, 39, are “members of a far-right-wing group, an organization that glorifies violence against political opponents,” Steinglass told the court.
“This media has been very unfair to me,” Kinsman whined to news photographers as he was led to a holding cell in handcuffs.
Kinsman and Hare were among a group of 10 Proud Boys busted for the violent street scrap. All but one have been convicted at trial or by guilty plea.