Two Queens men were thrown in prison today for their role in the death of a good Samaritan who came to the aid of a transgender man the pair were bothering.
Terril Pinnock and Jahvaughn Garrison were each sentenced to 6 1/2 years for punching and kicking 49-year-old Richard Salter, who intervened when the boys were harassing the other man.
“Although you weren’t the main assailants in this case, this was a terrible incident and caused a great pain to the victim’s family,” said Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter.
Pinnock, 22 and Garrison, 23 each pled guilty to gang assault.
Salter was stabbed in the leg by a third co-defendant, Daryl Reid, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter charges. The knife cut a main artery and Salter bled to death inside a Far Rockaway deli on July 4, 2010.