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Man Pleads Guilty to Shooting Two Women During Times Square Riot

By DNAinfo Staff on January 6, 2011 2:13pm

In this image taken from video, New York city police detain a group of people near Times Square on April 5.
In this image taken from video, New York city police detain a group of people near Times Square on April 5.
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By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting two women during a Times Square "wilding" incident last Easter Sunday.

Rayvon Guice was among 33 people arrested when hundreds of teens and young adults got out of control in the heart of Midtown at 11 p.m. on April 12, 2010. Four people were shot and injured during the riot, and Guice was the only person charged in those shootings.

Guice pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault after he admitted using a handgun and firing two shots into "a crowd of at least fifteen to twenty people," according to court documents.

The incident was called an act of "wilding" by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Law enforcement officials, including Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. vowed to prevent a similar incident from taking place there again.

Vance said Guice's plea will take "a dangerous felon" off the streets. It is "a step forward" in combating gun violence in the city, the DA added.

Jermaine Parker, then 19, was also charged with a felony following the incident but pleaded guilty in exchange for a jail-free sentence after prosecutors said his alleged assault on police officers was unintentional.

Another teen, Leroy-Jama Wigfall, was released on time served after prosecutors said Parker, not Wigfall, was involved in the alleged altercation with police.

Guice is scheduled to be sentenced to 15 years in prison on Jan. 19 in Manhattan Supreme Court.