LOCKUP: Barbara Sheehan, found to have killed hubby Raymond (below) in self-defense, was sentenced on a gun charge. (
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A Queens woman who shot and killed her retired NYPD husband after years of alleged abuse at his hands headed off to prison yesterday.
Barbara Sheehan, surrounded by family and friends, walked slowly into Queens Supreme Court to turn herself in following her conviction on a gun charge.
The 52-year-old mother of two nervously placed her gray hoodie and a rainbow-colored notebook on a table before facing the same judge who had rendered her five-year prison sentence.
“We love you, Barbara!” shouted a relative as court officers handcuffed the petite woman.
“You’re our hero!” exclaimed another as Sheehan soberly walked to the back of the courtroom to be transferred to Rikers Island. She will later be transferred to a prison upstate.
Sheehan was acquitted of murder after shooting Sgt. Raymond Sheehan 11 times with a revolver and a Glock in their Howard Beach home in February 2008.
The jury said she acted in self-defense when she shot Raymond but found her guilty for using the Glock.
Sheehan had testified that she shot him during a fight over going to Florida, where, she said, she believed he planned to kill her.
In May, Sheehan lost an appeal to lower the 2011 sentence handed down by Justice Barry Kron.
One appellate judge criticized Kron for not invoking Jenna’s Law, which gives first-time violent offenders a chance at a lesser sentence in domestic-abuse cases.
Sheehan declined to comment yesterday but on Thursday told The Post, “Where are we in our country if [you] can’t even defend yourself in your own home?”
Kron yesterday granted a request by her lawyer, Niall MacGiollabhui, to exonerate her $1 million bail and put her in protective custody. Her lawyers are appealing.
Her tearful family declined to comment.