Blood Stone Villains gang member, Jamel Dossie was handed a 25-year prison sentence today after being convicted of the murder of 32-year-old Francisco Bonilla in late June.
“This defendant robbed a two-year-old girl of her father, devastated a family and endangered the lives of countless others with stray bullets hitting two crowded buses,” said Brooklyn district attorney Eric Gonzalez on July 26.
Dossie, 34, of Brownsville, was convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon on June 29, 2023, following a jury trial.
According to court records, on Nov. 19, 2019, at approximately 8:45am, outside a bodega on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, the defendant shot and killed Bonilla.
Dossie was captured on surveillance videos before, during and after the murder. Specifically, the video showed him wearing a red baseball cap in the moments before the murder.
Footage then tracked the defendant as he hunted the victim down and opened fire at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Dumont avenues.
Stray bullets also hit a school bus carrying young children to daycare and went through the rear door of an MTA bus full of passengers. No other injuries were reported.
Finally, video tracked the defendant as he returned to a nearby building, where he was seen putting a gun inside a mailbox and celebrating the murder by dancing and laughing with two women in the lobby.
Another video captured him a short time later entering a fourth-floor apartment, wearing that red hat again, and subsequently leaving the apartment without the hat. That same hat was later recovered from the apartment with the defendant’s DNA.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Chu sentenced Dossie to 25-years-to-life in prison on July 26.
“Today’s sentence holds him accountable for this despicable crime, and I hope it offers some comfort to the victim’s loved ones,” Gonzalez said.
The case was prosecuted by assistant district attorney Michael Diamond, of the District Attorney’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, under the supervision of assistant district attorney Matthew Stewart, deputy chief of VCE, and the overall supervision of assistant district attorney Alfred De Ingeniis, VCE Chief.
