The Ulster County DA’s office delivered the first significant verdict of the new year when it announced that Nyqwuan Monroe, the murderer of 28-year-old Kingston resident Dominique Green, faces up to 25 years in prison after entering a guilty plea.
Monroe, now 25, was already a convicted felon the night he shot and killed Green in his own home on Prospect Street near Greenkill Avenue. Monroe was accompanied at the time by co-defendants Shaliza Dhanraj, 26, and Malik Fredericks, 25. The trio drove up to Schenectady after the shooting. They were taken into custody the next day after a collaborative effort between the Kingston Police Department and the New York State Police.
The firearm Monroe had handed off to one of his co-defendants to dispose of was recovered. DNA evidence matching the gun to Monroe was provided from a bullet in the gun.
Assistant district attorney and Special Victims Bureau chief Jenna Hastings, the lead prosecutor on the case, established that Monroe was the individual who shot and killed Green.
Said Hastings, “There is no plea that can ever heal the pain and trauma that his actions caused the family and loved ones of Dominique Green.”
Chief assistant district attorney Elizabeth Culmone-Mills, also involved in the case, said, “Working together, we have taken an incredibly dangerous individual off the street.”
Standing before judge Thomas Marcelle, Monroe pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, a Class A-I felony.
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