20-Year Sentence In Deadly Shooting Of 25-year-Old LI Man Over Fanny Pack Theft: DA

RIVERSIDE, NY — A 20-year prison sentence followed by 20 years of post-release supervision was handed down Monday in the 2021 deadly shooting of a 25-year-old man in Coram, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

On Dec. 2, 2021, just before 10 a.m., in the woods behind a home on Middle Country Road, Marcus Reid fired multiple rounds from a semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun at the ground below the feet of Branzel Bonner, demanding that he hand over his fanny pack, but Bonner refused, and Reid repeatedly shot him in the torso, according to prosecutors.

Reid then tried to remove Bonner’s fanny pack from his motionless body, but was unsuccessful, so he instead removed the contents and bolted from the scene, prosecutors said, adding that Bonner was pronounced dead at Stony Brook University Hospital within an hour of the shooting.

Tierney said that the sentence "brings justice" to Bonner’s family and also removes him as a "dangerous" defendant from the county's streets.

"Anyone threatening the safety of our neighborhoods, particularly with gun violence, will be held accountable," he said.

Reid pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a
weapon in February.

Patch has reached out to his attorney, Christopher Brocato of Central Islip, for comment.

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