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Guilty Verdict In 2002 Truckelman's Lane Murder
A man who was filled with rage at the thought of being evicted from his home and thus killed a relative of the home owner in cold blood in 2002, was found guilty of the crime last week and could face 25 years to life in jail, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Charles Hynes. Andrew Goddard, 33, had been subletting an upstairs apartment in a house on Truckelman's Lane, a small, little-known street that runs from Rockaway Parkway to East 100th Street between Flatlands Avenue and Avenue J. He was convicted last week when prosecutors from the Kings County district attorney's office charged that he was angered when he was told he would be evicted because he had been smoking inside the house and he took word of the eviction out on anyone present, shooting Maureen Greenridge, 50, the mother of two small children and the sister of Camille Alleyne, who owned the building, police said. Detectives from the 69th precinct told reporters at the time that the victim and a relative had recently removed a stove and sink from Goddard's apartment in an effort to get him to leave. A police spokesperson said that Greenridge drove her car up East 100th Street to Truckelman's Lane at about 6:15 p.m. on September 29, 2002 where Goddard was waiting for her in a driveway and he shot her "multiple times." She was pronounced dead at the scene. Mrs. Greenridge's son, who was 19 at the time, told the jury he had been playing basketball in the driveway when Goddard came out of the apartment and tried to hit him with a gun. He missed, and went around a corner of the house where he confronted Greenridge and shot her. The district attorney's spokesperson said Goddard would be sentenced on June 19.
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