Man Who Shot UPS Driver In Queens Over Parking Job Pleads Guilty: DA

QUEENS, NY — A man who shot a UPS driver in the stomach out of anger over his parking job in 2020 has pleaded guilty to attempted murder over two years later, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Jahsheen Osbourne, 21, could spend 17 years in prison for the unprovoked shooting, which left the driver with "extensive internal damage," according to the Queens District Attorney's Office.

"The prevalence of using illegal guns to resolve disputes has led to myriad senseless shootings, including this one that could have easily taken the life of the victim," District Attorney Melinda Katz said.

"The driver was merely doing his job when he was severely injured because of the defendant's impatience."

On the afternoon of Jan. 14, 2020, the driver, a 15-year-veteran UPS worker, momentarily stopped traffic on a Woodhaven street while trying to parallel park a UPS truck, prosecutors said.

Osbourne, who at the time was sitting in the passenger seat of a stolen Mercedes Benz stuck behind the truck, got upset by the wait and started to yell at the UPS driver, prompting the worker to get out of the truck and engage in a verbal argument, according to the DA.

As the driver of the Mercedes Benz maneuvered the car past the truck, Osbourne pulled out a gun and shot the UPS worker in the stomach, the DA said.

The driver started to bleed from his stomach and lost consciousness, but he was rushed to the hospital and underwent lifesaving surgery, prosecutors said.

Osbourne wasn't arrested until October of that year — nearly nine months after the shooting — when police caught up with him outside of his house, the Queens Post reported.

At the time, the South Jamaica resident was hit with marijuana and criminal weapons charges, according to the Queens Post.

He was also charged with grand larceny in a separate indictment for stealing the Mercedes Benz hours before the shooting, the DA said.

More than a year after his arrest, Osbourne pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted murder, grand larceny and criminal weapons charges; a plea arrangement reached during jury selection for his trial, which satisfies all of his existing indictments, prosecutors said.

Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis is expected to sentence Osbourne to 17 years in prison at a hearing on May 19, according to the DA.