The Bronx man who shot Middletown police officer Evan Barone two years ago was sentenced by an Orange County judge to 58 and a half years in state prison on Oct. 12.
The 31-year-old defendant, Desean Owens, got 40 years for attempted murder in the first degree and another 18 and a half years for criminal weapon possession and trespassing.
Barone still receives medical treatment for the shooting injury he sustained and has not returned to work at the police department, according to Middletown Police Chief John Ewanciw on Oct. 13.
“He is doing the best he can under the circumstances,” Ewanciw told The Epoch Times….