Gunman who bragged online gets 25 to life for Bed-Stuy killing

BROOKLYN, NY – A 29-year-old Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a former friend in an execution-style attack on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said Rahmell Howell was convicted in June of second-degree murder, first-degree reckless endangerment, and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon following a jury trial.

According to trial evidence, on September 10, 2021, around 6 p.m., the victim, 23-year-old Jermaine Isaiah Hill-Cross, was standing outside 354 Clifton Place when Howell spotted him from a nearby apartment. Howell and another man came outside, and when Hill-Cross ran, Howell chase

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