Upper West Side Tobacco Store Shooting Update

Last Wednesday afternoon, a tobacco store manager was shot during an apparently attempted robbery. Three suspects, who fled the store at Broadway and West 71st Street in a vehicle and were later found at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, were arraigned yesterday. The Daily News reports the "three goons" hail from Delaware and that 25-year-old Joseph Terry "was the mastermind and getaway driver." The masked gunmen were actually two teenage girls, Evette Wynn, 18, and Annquasia Watson, 15; while Watson "kept the door shut, Wynn allegedly fired a round into the ceiling and then shot" the store owner in the stomach. Wynn and Watson left with $2,000. The trio were arraigned on charges including robbery and possession of stolen property; Wynn was also charged with attempted murder.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 21, 2008 12:06 PM

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Lautaro

This story is pretty sad. Both girls should be in high school, either having just graduated or in the middle of sophomore year. Instead, they're running around with a 25 year-old who's clever enough to only be the "getaway driver". I hope the courts take that into account when it come time for sentencing, etc.

NannyState

Sounds like they were having a kind of Queen Latifah "Set It Off" thing going on. Whatever happened to just pulling out boxcutters at the bus stop?

dapwell

wow fuck all you guys. annquasia, fuck you too!

Nicky Eyes

Are you really wondering what kind of name that is? I'll give you a clue that I'd bet all I have on...It's not Irish, Asian, or Romanian, and goes in the pile with Shaniqua and Trekwon. It's a new-age black name.

JacqueMehoff

they came all the way from Delaware to rob the guy?

damn, the economy must be really tough.

Snoopy

Splicer, don't be stupid No one would name their kid Adolph Hitler.

Felix Hoenikker

Annquasia sounds like a great name for an anti-emetic.

Splicer

Annquasia? What's next? Naming your kid Adolph Hitler?

Guest207

Well I for one applaud this example of gender equality in violent crime. For too long women have butted against the glass ceiling of the criminal world, relegated to gun moll at best. Brava, sisters!