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Ellen Moynihan and Larry McShane

Queens man sentenced to 30 years for role as robbery lookout in friendly fire death of NYPD detective

NEW YORK — The lookout man in a botched Queens robbery where a veteran New York Police Department detective died from friendly fire was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life on a felony murder conviction.

Jagger Freeman, 28, didn’t pull the trigger on Feb. 12, 2019, when his partner in crime sparked a deadly fusillade of bullets by pointing a fake gun at officers responding to the a T-Mobile store heist in Richmond Hills.

Detective Brian Simonson, 42, was fatally shot in the chest by a colleague when the gunfire started.

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