Hempstead Gang Member Gets 20 Years For 2020 Shooting

HEMPSTEAD, NY — A member of the Bloods street gang from Hempstead was sentenced to 20 years in prison today on assault and weapon charges related to a shooting in 2020.

Trevor Ford, 30, was convicted on March 15 of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault and criminal possession of a firearm.

“After a verbal altercation with the victim, Trevor Ford was unflinching in his decision to draw a weapon and callously shoot the man at a busy intersection in Hempstead,” said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly. “Today’s sentence removes another dangerous criminal from the streets of Nassau County, and makes all of our residents safer. I thank the police and prosecutors who worked to ensure this outcome.”

According to Donnelly, around 7:15 p.m. on May 15, 2020, Ford approached a man at the corner of Bedell Street and Terrace Avenue in Hempstead. After getting into an argument, Ford took out a gun and shot the man in the leg.

The man was taken to a hospital. The bullet had fractured his left leg, and he required emergency surgery.

Ford had fled the scene, and was arrested later in a joint operation by the Nassau County Police Department, Hempstead Police Department and Nassau County Sheriff's Office.

Donnelly said that Ford is facing charges in other open cases. One is an attempted murder case from May 2019, when he shot at a man on Terrace Avenue in Hempstead, Donnelly said. He is also awaiting trial for narcotics trafficking conspiracy from 2019, in which Donnelly said he is accused of conspiring to purchase and sell cocaine.