An 18-year-old lured out through Facebook messages and gunned down while running for his life. A Brooklyn jury calls it murder. Now the shooter will likely spend decades behind bars.
On Friday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht sentenced 25-year-old Ricardo Dash of Bedford-Stuyvesant to 22 years to life in prison for the killing of Shaheem Bascom in East New York, after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder on December 10, 2025, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez called the shooting a “cold-blooded execution of an unarmed teenager” and said the prison term holds Dash accountable, while offering condolences to Bascom’s family…