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| Man Convicted of Triple Shooting Pleads Guilty to Officer Assault |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/26/2002 |
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A man convicted of murdering three people in an apartment above the Carnegie Deli has pleaded guilty to assaulting a corrections officer at the city jail on Rikers Island, the Bronx district attorney said. Sean Salley, 31, admitted that on May 28, while being escorted to a bathroom, he punched Officer Vincent Donovan in the face, causing him to fall backward and hit his head against the bars of a jail cell. Donovan needed eight stitches to close a gash in his head, District Attorney Robert Johnson said November 21. Salley was sentenced to 31/2 years in prison for the assault on top of the 120 years he was already serving for the triple murder. Salley and an accomplice, Andre Smith, were convicted of shooting five people, three of them fatally, in the sixth-floor apartment above the deli and within walking distance of Times Square on May 10, 2001. Smith also was sentenced to 120 years in prison. |

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