A money dispute in Ozone Park has landed a Buffalo man behind bars for more than two decades. Dwayne Scott, 27, was sentenced Thursday to 21½ years in prison, plus five years of post-release supervision, for the 2021 shooting that killed 20-year-old Brandon Rodriguez, a young father from Queens.
Scott pleaded guilty in April to manslaughter in the first degree, avoiding a murder trial but locking in a long state prison term. Prosecutors said Rodriguez, who had an 18-month-old child, was gunned down in September 2021 after an argument over cash escalated into deadly violence.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the sentence in a press release, saying Scott stepped out of another vehicle and fired multiple shots at Rodriguez at point-blank range on the evening of Sept. 24, 2021, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Katz called the killing “senseless” and said the fight was over “several thousand dollars.” Scott was later tracked down in Buffalo, brought back to Queens and formally charged…