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Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Friday, Jan. 30, that a man was sentenced to 17 years in prison for attempted murder in the second-degree for shooting his former girlfriend in the face after hunting her down at a local nightspot in the Mt. Eden section of The Bronx.
“This defendant waited for his former girlfriend to come out of a lounge and shot her as she sat with a man in her car,” Clark said. “The victim has undergone eight reconstructive surgeries and was unable to work, causing a profound financial impact on her family. Her grievous injuries may never completely heal. Hopefully she will take some solace in the 17-year sentence the defendant received for this heinous crime.”
Clark said the defendant, Arturo Paulino, 30, of The Bronx, was sentenced on Friday to 17 years in prison and five years post release supervision for attempted murder in the second-degree by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Giyang An. She said Paulino pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 10, 2025.
According to the investigation, on June 4, 2023, at around 10.54 p.m. Paulino waited in his car outside a nightclub at Ogden and University Avenues in Mt. Eden for his former girlfriend. The court heard that when the 39-year-old woman got into her vehicle with a male friend, the defendant drove up next to her and shot her once at point blank range in the face before speeding away.
Prosecutors said she was taken to NYC Health+Hospitals/Lincoln in critical condition, suffered a broken jaw and lost multiple teeth. They said the incident was caught on surveillance camera.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Sharlene Disla, supervisor in the domestic violence bureau, under the supervision of Jena Rizzo, deputy chief of the domestic violence bureau, Simon Folkard, deputy chief of the domestic violence bureau, Agata DiGiovanni, chief of the domestic violence bureau, and under the overall supervision of Adrienne Giunta, deputy chief of the special victims division and Joseph Muroff, chief of the special victims division.
Clark thanked Raven Wade, trial preparation assistant, NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes and Police Officers Omar Aguilar Martinez and Jack Lopez of the 44th Precinct for their work on the case and investigation.
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