A Hempstead man was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for shooting and killing a Roosevelt man in broad daylight in October 2018.
On October 12, 2018, Jeffrey Lee was walking with his girlfriend on Dartmouth Street in Hempstead, at approximately 12:07 p.m. Lee was approached by Dangerfield at the intersection of Stewart Avenue and was shot twice. Multiple shell cases belonging to a 9mm semi-automatic pistol were recovered at the scene.
The victim was later transported to NYU Langone Hospital Long Island (Winthrop) where he was pronounced dead.
After an investigation the defendant was arrested on May 6, 2019 by police in Steubenville, Ohio, and later extradited to Nassau County.
Dangerfield pleaded guilty before Judge Meryl Berkowitz on March 7, 2024, to Murder in the Second Degree (a Class A-I felony) and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree (both Class C violent felonies). On May 14, 2024, Dangerfield was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The NCDA recommended a sentence of 22 years to life in prison.
“Savonn Dangerfield wanted to get back at 23-year-old Jeffrey Lee after a perceived slight. The defendant caught up to Lee on Dartmouth Street and brutally gunned him down in the middle of the afternoon in front of his girlfriend,” said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly. “After the shooting, the defendant took off for Ohio to try to escape the consequences of what he had done, but law enforcement caught up with him. Now he will pay for his crimes in a prison cell.”