A TV actor from Rego Park was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of murdering a man during a 2021 ambush in St. Albans.
Isaiah Stokes, 45, of 62nd Road, was convicted on March 7 of murder in the second degree and other related crimes for gunning down 37-year-old Tyrone Jones as he sat in a parked Jeep Cherokee waiting on a friend to arrive for lunch. The fatal shooting was in retaliation for an altercation between the two men at the victim’s birthday bash months earlier.
According to the charges and trial testimony, the two met at a birthday party for Jones at a Queens club in October 2020 and they became involved in an altercation after the actor exhibited inappropriate behavior toward female party guests. After Stokes refused Jones’ request that he leave, Stokes was injured during a physical altercation with other partygoers.
On or about Jan. 29, 2021, Stokes placed a GPS tracking device on the undercarriage of Jones’ Jeep Grand Cherokee and used it to track him down on the day of the murder.