Donald Proudfoot, 27, a convicted burglar who was paroled in 2013, busted in November 2015 on charges he choked his girlfriend, then stole three pairs of designer kicks from her apartment, and killing a Vincentian living in Brooklyn was caught by NYPD.
Proudfoot shot Cosmore Sam, 46, once in the chest just before 1:40 a.m. on St. Johns’s Place near Schenectady Ave on June 2nd 2016 in Crown Heights, the same block where Proudfoot lives cops said had said.
“We believe it’s over something about a pair of Air Jordan sneakers,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. “We don’t know what happened with it.”
Emergency personnel rushed Cosmore to Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved. Sam originally hailed from Layou and was known as “Benny” to his friends and family.
