STATEN ISLAND — The brother of a man convicted of killing two NYPD officers in 2003 was indicted on assault and gun charges after he strangled a woman in her home last year, District Attorney Michael McMahon announced.
Uzziah Wilson, 37, was hit with a 12-count indictment on Thursday for criminal possession of a loaded weapon, assault and strangulation, McMahon said.
"This defendant is a convicted drug felon who used physical violence against a woman and also possessed an illegal firearm," McMahon said in a statement.
"His actions both broke the law and violated his parole and now, after being indicted by a grand jury, my office will work diligently to hold him accountable for his crimes."
In July, Wilson strangled the woman inside her home then dragged her across a rug, causing injuries to her legs, prosecutors said.
Then on Dec. 31, Wilson threw the same woman into a tree on Bay Street, Staten Island, then threatened her with a firearm inside her home, prosecutors said.
During a parole visit, officers found a loaded gun inside Wilson's Park Hill Avenue apartment and arrested him, prosecutors said.
Wilson was previously arrested in 1997 and served jail time for a drug conviction. He was released in 2014, according to the state Department of Corrections.
He's being held on $100,000 bail for his latest arrest, the DA said.
His brother, Ronell Wilson, was sentenced to death in 2013 for killing two NYPD undercover detectives — Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin — in Staten Island during a gun bust, the New York Daily News reported.
