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'{{Infobox civilian attack | title = Wendy's massacre | image = | caption = | location = [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], [[Queens]], [[New York City]], [[New York]], U.S. | coordinates = {{coord|40|45|33.07|N|73|49|48.68|W|region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | target = [[Wendy's]] outlet | date = May 24, 2000 | time = 11:00 p.m. | timezone = [[Eastern Time Zone (North America)|Eastern Daylight Time]] | type = [[Robbery]] and [[homicide]] | fatalities = 5 | injuries = 2 | perps = Craig Godineaux, John Taylor | susperps = | weapons = [[Bryco Arms/Jennings Firearms/Jimenez Arms|Bryco-Jennings]] Model J38 .38 caliber [[semi-automatic pistol]] }} The '''Wendy's Massacre''' was a [[mass murder]] that took place in a [[Wendy's]] fast-food restaurant at 40-12 Main Street in [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], [[Queens]], [[New York City]], [[New York]], on May 24, 2000. ==Robbery and killing of employees== The killings were carried out by 36-year-old John the bitch Taylor, a former employee of the restaurant, and his accomplice Craig Godineaux. The robbery was carefully planned, as Taylor had the manager of the restaurant (whom he knew) summon the entire staff to the basement on the pretense of having an important meeting. Once in the basement, Taylor and Godineaux bound and gagged all seven of the employees at gunpoint and then shot each of them in the head with a [[Bryco Arms/Jennings Firearms/Jimenez Arms|Bryco-Jennings]] Model J38 .380 caliber [[semi-automatic pistol]]. All but two of the employees died. One of the survivors dialled [[9-1-1]], and police arrived to find the victims and discovered $2,400 missing from the safe. ==Arrests and trial== The [[NYPD]] arrested Taylor and Godineaux less than 48 hours after the killings. Evidence quickly mounted against the pair, including eyewitness testimony, [[ballistics]], and [[fingerprint]]s. On January 22, 2001, Godineaux pleaded guilty and was later sentenced to life in prison. Judge [[Steven W. Fisher]] instructed the jury that he would most likely sentence Taylor to a sentence of 175 years in prison if the jury did not return a unanimous verdict on the death penalty.<ref>Soltnik, Daniel E. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/nyregion/29fisher.html "Steven W. Fisher, New York State Justice, Dies at 64"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 28, 2010. Accessed December 28, 2010.</ref> On November 19, 2002, Taylor was convicted on 20 counts of murder and attempted murder. One week later, on November 26, the jury sentenced Taylor to death.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=940CE2D61738F934A15752C1A9649C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fCapital%20Punishment| title=Jury Sentences Wendy's Killer To Be Executed|publisher=New York Times | first1=Sarah | last1=Kershaw | first2=Marc | last2=Santora | date=2002-11-27}}</ref> ==Post-conviction== On October 23, 2007, the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, New York's highest court, vacated the death penalty portion of the verdict.<ref>{{cite web|title=Court of Appeals re: John Taylor|url=http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/decisions/oct07/123opn07.pdf}}</ref> The Queens prosecutor's office fought unsuccessfully to have Taylor's case declared an exception to a 2004 Appeals Court's decision that found New York's death penalty law unconstitutional because of a flaw in its mandated instructions to the jury. On November 29, 2007 Taylor was re-sentenced to life without parole for the five murders.<ref>{{cite web|title=Last NY Death Row Inmate Gets Life Term|url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hCn-O1iH5lBCNtcFFuPc-nPjq4QwD8T7N51G0| publisher=Associated Press}}{{dead link|date=November 2012|bot=Legobot}}</ref> As of 2007, he had been the only inmate on Death Row in New York. Taylor is currently serving his sentence at the [[Clinton Correctional Facility]] in [[Dannemora (village), New York|Dannemora, New York]] as inmate #03A0158, while Godineaux is currently serving his sentence at the [[Auburn Correctional Facility]] in [[Auburn, New York]] as inmate #01A1186. ==Victims== Killed in the [[massacre]] were: *Jean Auguste, 27 *Ali Ibadat, 40 *Jeremy Mele, 19 *Ramon Nazario, 44 *Anita Smith, 23 Seriously wounded: * Ja Quione Johnson, 18 * Patricio (Patrick) Castro, 23 ==References== * {{cite news|title=Two suspects in Wendy's shootings arrested|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=2000-05-26|url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/05/26/wendys.shooting.03/|accessdate=2007-08-07 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071015101958/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/05/26/wendys.shooting.03/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-10-15}} * {{cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D|title=2 Men Arrested In Killings of 5 At Restaurant|publisher=[[New York Times]]|date=2000-05-27|page=A1|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30814F63A590C748EDDAC0894D8404482|accessdate=2007-08-07}} * {{cite news|last=Kershaw|first=Sarah|title= Forestalling Death Penalty In Wendy's Massacre Case|publisher=[[New York Times]]|date=2000-11-21|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=980DE2D9163AF932A15752C1A9669C8B63|accessdate=2007-08-07}} * {{cite news|first=Liz|last=Goff|title=Blood Spills On Main Street: The Wendy’s Massacre|work=The Queens Spin|publisher=[[Queens Tribune]]|url=http://www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2003/wendysmassacre.htm|accessdate=2007-08-07}} * {{cite news|last=Confessore|first=Nicholas|title=New York’s High Court Hears Death Penalty Arguments|publisher=[[New York Times]]|date=2007-09-11|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/nyregion/11death.html|accessdate=2007-10-23}} ==Notes== <references/> [[Category:Mass murder in 2000]] [[Category:Deaths by firearm in New York]] [[Category:Murder in New York]] [[Category:Mass murder in the United States]] [[Category:Mass shootings in the United States]] [[Category:2000 murders in the United States]] [[Category:2000 in New York]] [[Category:Wendy's International]]'