(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Jerry McKoy, 58, of Patchogue, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty at trial of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and other related charges, for shooting into a Mastic Beach residence in April 2024.
“Since taking office, I made it clear that individuals who commit violent crime in Suffolk County will face serious consequences, and today’s sentence is another step in keeping that commitment,” said District Attorney Tierney. “This defendant recklessly fired into the home of an innocent couple, endangering lives, and threatening the safety of our community. Such acts erode the sense of security that our residents deserve, and they will not be tolerated.”
The evidence at trial established that in the early morning hours of April 11, 2024, McKoy got into a dispute with a woman over money inside his car on Hickory Road in Mastic Beach. After the woman exited McKoy’s vehicle, he began searching for the woman on the property of a house that McKoy believed the woman entered. McKoy knocked on the door but when nobody answered, he went back into his vehicle, took out a loaded semi-automatic handgun and fired two shots into the home.
The house that McKoy shot into was not the woman’s residence but was instead occupied by a 78-year-old man and his 66-year-old wife who were not injured in the shooting. Members of the Suffolk County Police Department recovered a 9MM caliber projectile in the couple’s living room the following morning.
Over the course of several months after the shooting, law enforcement used several advanced investigative tactics to identify McKoy as the shooter which led to his arrest on July 29, 2024.
Prior to this incident, McKoy was convicted of Assault in the Second Degree, a Class D violent felony, in 2021, and was convicted of Burglary in the First Degree, a Class B violent felony, in 2000.
On May 16, 2025, McKoy was convicted of two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Class C violent felonies, and one count of Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree, a Class D felony, after a trial heard before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei.
On July 16, 2025, McKoy was sentenced to 16 to life in prison. He was represented by Chase Brown, Esq.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Melisa Bliss and Saam Jalayer of the Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau, and the investigation was conducted by Detective Kyle Negrin of the Suffolk County Police Department’s Seventh Squad.
