QUEENS, NY – A Queens man who tried to kill his wife during a domestic dispute in a hotel is going to prison. She was naked when police found her in the hotel lobby.
Malcom White, who was found guilty in July, was sentenced today to 22 years-to-life in prison for shooting his wife during a dispute at a hotel in Jamaica, Queens, in March 2020.
After a two-week trial in July, the jury found White guilty of attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon. Judge Yavinsky sentenced White to 22 years to life.
On March 27, 2020, emergency personnel and police were dispatched to the Hillside Hotel on Queens Boulevard in Jamaica.
White was in one of the rooms with the victim, his 34-year-old wife, and warned responders not to come in.
“I’ll blow her head off if you come in here,” White shouted to police when they arrived.
“I believe that the sentence imposed today provides at least some measure of peace to the victim as she continues to recover,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. “I urge victims of domestic violence who need safety planning services, or help in securing an order of protection or shelter placement, to call us or contact a Family Justice Center immediately.”
“In searching for White, police found the victim in the hotel lobby, naked, with a gunshot wound to her arm and, as would be diagnosed later, several bone fractures to her face,” the NYPD said in a report.
According to the report, the officer gained entry to the defendant’s hotel room by kicking in the deadbolted door and found blood in various places.
“Police later recovered a fired bullet from the room’s bathtub and two cell phones—one concealed under the mattress and another in the toilet. The defendant was discovered naked behind the hotel. Police also recovered an unloaded revolver near the back of the hotel,” Katz reported.