Murder Plea For 2018 Shooting Of LI Man: Nassau DA

MINEOLA, NY — A Hempstead man pleaded guilty to a 2018 fatal shooting, prosecutors said.

Savonn Dangerfield, 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

“This defendant brutally gunned down an unarmed 23-year-old man out for a walk with his girlfriend because of a perceived dispute," Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly. "After the shooting, Savonn Dangerfield fled, trying to run as far away as possible from the murder he committed. He couldn’t outrun authorities, however, and was apprehended in Ohio and sent back to Nassau County to face judgment for his violent crimes."

Donnelly said that on the afternoon of October 12, 2018, the victim, Jeffrey Lee, 23, of Roosevelt, was walking with his girlfriend on Dartmouth Street in Hempstead when he was approached by Dangerfield, at the intersection of Stewart Avenue and shot three times.

Multiple shell cases belonging to a 9mm semi-automatic pistol were recovered at the scene, Donnelly said.

Following an investigation, Dangerfield was arrested on May 13, 2019, by police in Steubenville, Ohio, and later extradited to Nassau County.

He is due back in court on May 2, and is expected to be sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.