ALBANY — The state’s highest court upheld a decisionto cut 10 years off the sentence of a 26-year-old Troy man convicted in a fatal drive-by shooting.
Jhajuan Sabb was charged with the May 21, 2021, killing of Sharaf Addailam, a 35-year-old grocery clerk at Sam Food Market. He pleaded guilty in 2022 to first-degree manslaughter, which carried a 25-year sentence, and attempted first-degree assault, which brought a consecutive 10-year term. He was sentenced to a total of 35 years in state prison.
Sabb appealed, arguing the terms shouldn’t be served consecutively. The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court agreed, ruling in 2025 that the sentences should be served concurrently and reducing Sabb’s time in prison by a decade…