Quincy Homere and Jamar Hill gunned Chinx down in May of 2015 as the rapper waited at a red light in Queens.
On Monday (Aug. 12), Homere was sentenced to 23 years in prison in Queens courtroom.
“I’d like to express my condolences to the family and anyone else that was affected with what happened here,” he said in a statement to the court. “I don’t believe there’s words that can express the way I feel about what transpired here.”
Chinx’s widow Janelli Caceres also gave a statement, “I was told I had two minutes to say goodbye, holding his mother’s hand, watching his lifeless body praying and crying for him to wake up,” she told the court. “A mother has to bury her son. At the age of 28 I had became a widow. My children, who were 15, 11 and 4, are now without a dad.”
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Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz issued the statement below:
“Quincy Homere was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for killing Lionel Pickens Jr., a successful rapper, husband and father who was mercilessly gunned down in 2015. Homere fired numerous rounds into Pickens’ car while he was stopped at a red light in Briarwood and then fled, leaving the young man for dead. Nothing can undo what happened, but I hope today’s sentence brings some solace to Pickens’ loved ones as they continue to grieve.”
Last month, Homere plead guilty for manslaughter. His co-defedant Jamar Hill case is still pending as he’s already incarcerated for an unrelated charge.
According to court documents, Homere and Hill “hunted down Chinx like an animal” due to an argument over a phone on Rikers Island.
