Brooklyn gunman gets 40 to life for killing man in SUV, wounding NYPD officer

A murderous gunman who pumped bullets into an SUV and killed a man inside, then shot a police officer during a heated gun battle in Brooklyn, will spend 40 years to life behind bars, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Boyce Hayward almost killed NYPD Officer Brian McGurran on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street the night of May 12, 2021, but the then-28-year-old cop’s bulletproof vest saved his life.

“We must protect society from Boyce Hayward,” Assistant District Attorney Robert Schwartz said at Hayward’s sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court…

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