A “Law & Order” actor was sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars for the “calculated,” revenge-fueled homicide of a rival in Queens — with the sufferer’s tearful father slamming the killer as “a monster.”
Isaiah Stokes, who appeared on hit authorized drama in addition to “Boardwalk Empire,” didn’t present regret for killing Tyrone Jones, who authorities stated was shot almost a dozen occasions inside his parked automotive on Feb. 7, 2021.
Jones’s weeping father laced into the actor throughout an emotional sufferer affect assertion on the Friday sentencing.
“I can remember the day that my son was brought into this world – a happy father I was. TJ was fun…a loving uncle and nephew. What I don’t want to remember, Isaiah Stokes, is the day that you decided to murder my son,” Tyrone Jones Sr. stated.
“TJ did not die from a car accident or a disease, but by the hands of a monster,” the devastated father continued by way of tears.
Stokes, 45 – who additionally information and performs music beneath the title I$AIAH – had a four-month-long vendetta in opposition to Jones, 37, after the youthful man threw him out of his celebration throughout a conflict in October 2020, prosecutors stated.
The actor hooked up a GPS monitoring system to Jones’ automobile and stalked him for greater than every week earlier than the broad-daylight, caught-one-camera homicide, in response to the DA’s workplace.
“You planned and thought about how and what you was going to do to end TJ’s life, Isaiah Stokes. Was it that serious that you had to pump 11 bullets into TJ’s body?” his father cried in courtroom, whereas gazing his solely son’s killer.
Stokes was convicted of second diploma homicide within the case, together with two counts of felony possession of a weapon, however started making an attempt to argue the deserves of the case in the course of the Friday sentencing, prompting Choose Kenneth Holder to rebuke him.
“Listen to me. You were convicted, so you need to talk to me about why I should have some mercy on you in the sentence – that’s all I need to hear from you. I don’t want to hear about any motions – that’s all done,” Holder stated in the course of the continuing.
“You’re not a lawyer and frankly, you don’t know what you’re talking about,” the choose stated at one level, to which Stokes responded, “I know exactly what I’m talking about.”
Holder, fed up, took purpose at Stokes’ performing profession.
“I do imagine that you just thought staying in jail so long as attainable would do wonders on your film profession as soon as you bought out, however right here is the issue…you’re not getting out.
“Whatever movie you watched to plan this killing, you clearly watched the bootleg version, because no one could intentionally plan a murder and carry it out as stupidly as you did,” the choose continued, and added that Stokes was “more guilty than anyone I’ve ever seen in this courtroom.”
The 2021 homicide stripped the sufferer’s father of his “heart,” he instructed The Put up.
Stokes didn’t have a look at the grieving dad, which “was a slap” within the face, Jones Sr. later stated outdoors the courthouse.
“You know why he ain’t gonna look? Because I look just like my son. My son looked like me. There’s no difference. You’re looking at me, you’re looking at my son,” he instructed The Put up.
Later, Jones Sr. celebrated the sentence, and praised the ADA and NYPD for his or her “outstanding” work on the case.
“Now he’ll never see the street again, so I’m happy. Just like my son is gone, he’s gone. My son is in the ground, he’s going up to a penitentiary somewhere,” he stated.
Nonetheless, “it’s never going to be justice because I’m never gonna get my son back,” the daddy stated, including that Jones needs to be remembered because the “‘King of R&B’” and a “loving person” who “got along with everybody.”
