Violence erupted in a Long Island courtroom yesterday after an NYPD cop reached a controversial plea deal for the shooting death of his police officer fiance last year.
The victim’s enraged brother began cursing the shooter, Alexis Chaparro, in Riverhead yesterday, and had to be restrained by court officers as he tried to leap over several rows to get a piece of him.
Chaparro, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for a 10-year sentence, a term his victim’s tearful family slammed as too lenient.
Chaparro shot Sonia Garcia in their Bay Shore home as she arrived home from a late shift in September 2007 and claimed that he mistook her for an intruder.
Garcia’s tearful sister, Evelyn Hernandez, claims that Chaparro blasted her sibling because she walked in on him while he was shacking up with another man. “He got away with murder,” she said outside court. “My sister walked in on him with another man, and that’s why she’s dead.”
Prosecutors denied that there was any evidence of a gay lover.