A Patchogue man has been convicted of gun possession after shooting into a house in Mastic Beach last year.
In the early morning hours of April 11, 2024, Jerry McKoy got into a dispute with a woman over money inside his car on Hickory Road in Mastic Beach. After the woman exited McKoy’s vehicle, he began searching for the woman on the property of a house that McKoy believed the woman had entered. McKoy knocked on the door, but when nobody answered, he went back into his vehicle, took out a loaded semi-automatic handgun and fired two shots into the home.
The house that McKoy shot into was not the woman’s residence but was instead occupied by a 78-year-old man and his 66-year-old wife, who were not injured in the shooting.
Members of the Suffolk County Police Department recovered a 9-millimeter caliber projectile in the couple’s living room the following morning.
Over the course of several months after the shooting, law enforcement used several advanced investigative tactics to identify McKoy as the shooter which led to his arrest on July 29, 2024.
Prior to this incident, McKoy, 58, was convicted of Assault in the Second Degree, a Class D violent felony, in 2021, and was convicted of Burglary in the First Degree, a Class B violent felony, in 2000.
On May 16, 2025, McKoy was convicted of two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, both Class C violent felonies, and one count of Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree, a Class D felony, after a trial heard before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei.
McKoy is due back in court for sentencing on June 24, 2025, and faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
“This defendant, a previously convicted violent felon, pulled out an illegal, loaded firearm and fired it into the home of an innocent elderly couple following an argument over money,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “Thanks to the prosecutors and our law enforcement partners, today’s verdict is another step forward in holding perpetrators accountable for this type of senseless violence.”