A TV production assistant who was shot in the chest by a violent crack-dealing thug asked a Brooklyn judge to throw the book at her shooter Wednesday – and the judge complied by putting the ex-con behind bars for 50 years.
“I begged him to stop and he looked into my eyes and shot me anyway,” Lourdes Guillen, 27, who worked for “The View” when she was shot and got on-air “Get Well” shout-outs from Barbara Walters.
“Kenneth’s face was permanently burned in my head and no matter how hard I tried I could not forget it.”
“This menace to society got exactly what he deserved and he will no longer be a threat to the people of Brooklyn,” said District Attorney Ken Thompson.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice William Garnett said he didn’t buy Kenneth Brown’s excuse that he was drunk.
“The acts committed by the defendant were barbaric and beyond the pale of human decency,” Garnett said.
Brown, 30, was convicted earlier this month of putting two bullets into Guillen’s cousin Juan Medina and then heartlessly blasting Guillen as she pleaded for him to spare Medina’s life outside a Bushwick bodega in April 2012.
Guillen tearfully testified at trial Brown had become enraged because he thought bodega workers were too slow and then tried to pick a fight with her cousin before she hugged him to dispel any beef – but that after Brown left he quickly returned and opened fire.
Brown – who has past arrests for dealing crack, robbery, and guns – half-heartedly apologized when asked if he wanted to speak, but spent more time whining about how his alcoholism caused the attack.
“I sympathize with the victim. I sympathize with everyone,” the career criminal said unconvincingly.
“I have no recollection of the incident. I was intoxicated. This is a problem I have had for a very long time,” said the father of three, dressed in handcuffs and a Nautica sweater vest.
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