PEOPLE v. ROYSTER


176 A.D.2d 587 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John Royster, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 17, 1991


Defendant shot his estranged girlfriend to death, and seriously wounded one of her two sisters, as they were standing on a Manhattan subway platform during the evening rush hour on January 7, 1988. The uninjured sister told the police that the dead woman's boyfriend had done the shooting, and within hours defendant was tracked to a New Jersey apartment building where his brother lived. Defendant was seized at gunpoint as he emerged from the building.

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