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Murderer gets 25 to life

Posted 5/23/17

MONTICELLO - District Attorney Jim Farrell announced today that Carlos Serrano, aka Jay Menor Serrano, 25, of Monticello, N.Y. and previously of Brooklyn, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court by …

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Murderer gets 25 to life

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MONTICELLO - District Attorney Jim Farrell announced today that Carlos Serrano, aka Jay Menor Serrano, 25, of Monticello, N.Y. and previously of Brooklyn, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court by Supreme Court Judge Stephan Schick to 25 years to life in prison for his conviction for Murder in the Second Degree, 15 years in prison and 5 years of post-release supervision for Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree and 2 1/3 to 7 years in state prison for Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree. All sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

Serrano was convicted in February by a Sullivan County Jury in a case DA Farrell tried himself. Farrell said the evidence at trial established that Serrano approached the porch located at 62 Park Avenue in Monticello on the early evening of June 28, 2016, and, after inquiring where his estranged wife was and where his son was, and opened fire on Juan Medina, 28, of Brooklyn. In his sentencing argument, asking the Court to sentence Serrano to consecutive time and an aggregate of 42 1/3 years to life, Farrell said “Juan Medina, wasn't shot once, he wasn't shot twice, he was shot three times by this defendant in a ruthless and violent manner. Serrano wanted to make sure he killed his victim, and he did not care who he killed or hurt in the process when he opened fire on a porch when three other people were present, including an 8-year-old child.”

Farrell called Medina a brother, son, uncle and “guardian angel” to the 8 year old child, as his last act before he died, and after he was shot, was to get the child into the arms of her mother and out of the line of gunfire. The child's mother credits Medina with likely saving her daughter's life.

Serrano was taken into custody about three hours after the homicide at Sleepy Hollow by Monticello Police after an investigation that was aided by the Sullivan County District Attorney's Office and the New York State Police. Farrell thanked the Monticello Police, investigators from the DA's Office, the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the New York State Police Forensic Identification Unit, the New York State Police Computer Crimes Unit, and the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center for their work in this investigation.

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