A Peekskill man who fatally shot a man he had set up for a robbery was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in state prison.
Michael Jenkins, 22, got the maximum sentence for second-degree murder from state Supreme Court Judge Robert Neary after hearing the victim’s mother describe him as a “depraved human and heathen.”
Jenkins fatally shot Emmanuel Jordan in the victim’s car on Paulding Street in Peekskill on May 8, 2020. The two did not know each other but Jenkins had found Jordan on the internet and set up a meeting to buy painkillers from him.
The shooting occurred at about 6 p.m. but police did not discover his body until about nine hours later.
Emmanuel Jordan, who was fatally shot by Michael Jenkins in Peekskill on May 8, 2020
Immediately after the shooting, Jenkins cleared his links to Jordan from social media and let people know he had Percocet pills to sell.
“To Michael Jenkins it was business as usual,” Assistant District Attorney Laura Murphy told Neary.
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In asking for the maximum, Murphy argued that Jenkins had not learned from his previous crimes. Those included an attempted robbery in 2017 and an incident in 2015 when he took someone’s basketball and stabbed him when the person tried to get it back.
Jordan, 27, of Mohegan Lake, had four children. His mother, Barbara Jordan, told Neary she is “repulsed and enraged” by Jenkins and remains traumatized by the killing,…
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