1MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Hempstead man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a string of armed robberies and the cold-blooded killing of a Good Samaritan who tried to stop one of the attacks.

Deshawn Martin, 28, was convicted on June 4 following a jury trial of 19 charges, including first-degree murder, in connection with six robberies and an attempted robbery committed between October 2021 and February 2022. He was sentenced in Nassau County Court to life without parole for the murder, plus 152 consecutive years on the other charges.

On January 30, 2022, Martin entered Antojitos Express in Hempstead with a loaded gun, pistol-whipped a patron, and then fatally shot 49-year-old Santos Valeriano Argueta, who tried to intervene.

Once outside the restauran

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