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CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK - A gun-toting career criminal whose stray bullet killed a 53-year-old grandmother working at a Brooklyn construction site has been sentenced to 25 years to life for the senseless killing.
Malik Fryar, 34, was looking for work at a Coney Island job site on Feb. 4, 2019 — the same site where the victim, Dorothy Dixon, 53, had gathered with her fellow laborers with a coalition called Black Economic Survival, prosecutors said at trial.
Fryar had argued with the group a week earlier, telling them he he didn’t want to see them at the site again or else, according to prosecutors.
Officials said when Fryar saw them that day, he pulled up his car at the W. 33rd St. and Neptune Ave. construction site — his wife in the passenger seat — and started looking around his trunk. One of the workers punched him, so he ran, waited a minute, and returned to his car — then took a gun out of his trunk and fired three shots at the crowd, prosecutors said.
One of those shots hit Dixon in the chest, fatally wounding her. Another shot hit another worker in the foot.
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