The Brooklyn man who gunned down an innocent mother of 12 during a gang beef had to be restrained by court officers yesterday after a jury convicted him of murder and assault charges.
“Take me out of here,” Andrew Lopez said as court officers held him down.
Lopez, 20, was convicted of killing Zurana Horton and injuring two others, blasting a 9mm handgun from a Brownsville rooftop during a 2011 gangland dispute.Prosecutors said Lopez could get 75 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 7.
“I’m so happy. It’s a burden off my mind to know that he’s not going to walk around and try to kill somebody else,” said Denise Peace, the mother of the murdered woman. “Zurana’s smiling in heaven right now.”
Lopez’s brother, Jonathan Carrasquillo, faced murder charges in the same trial for allegedly ordering Lopez to blast the rival gangbangers. A separate jury will deliberate his fate today.