Sandro De Andrade
Every day at Brockton Superior Court was a lesson for me and my parishioners for the lost of their love one.
After we heard the sentence for the man who killed Heleno, we all drove to the Cemetery to pray and give Go'd thanks for the justice that was done.
Walter R. Bishop convicted in slaying of father on Main Street in “road rage” case
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer
BROCKTON— As the jury filed into the courtroom, Orlando de Andrade gently touched the photograph of his slain brother pinned over his heart.As the jury announced its guilty verdict for first-degree murder, de Andrade leaned his head down to kiss it.It was a silent tribute to justice and the life of his 27-year-old brother, Sandro de Andrade, who was gunned down two years ago on Main Street as he took his infant daughter out of his SUV.“It is in his memory,” his brother said.After deliberating for about five hours over two days, a four-man, eight-woman jury Thursday convicted Walter R. Bishop, 62, of Brockton, of first-degree murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and illegal possession of a firearm.Superior Court Judge Charles J. Hely sentenced Bishop to the mandatory sentence of life without parole on the murder charge.He also sentenced Bishop to a sentence of 5 to 5 1/2 years and a day on the assault and battery with a dangerous weapon conviction and 4 to 5 years in prison on the firearms charge. Those sentences will run concurrently with the life term.Sandro de Andrade's family, including the mother of his child, wept silently when the verdict was read and the sentence imposed.
Bishop, a former security guard, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced or when he was sentenced.His attorneys, Robert Sinsheimer and Tracy Bulger, unsuccessfully tried to convince the jury that Bishop was insane at the time of the shooting and not responsible for his actions.Prosecutors John Bradley and Peter McGuire convinced the jury that Bishop knew what he was doing and they brought in one witness who testified that the suspect told another inmate he was on trial for killing someone.Bishop, who was in a wheelchair and on oxygen in the courtroom, shot de Andrade outside a Main Street employment agency in Aug. 2, 2005, before horrified witnesses.
De Andrade was taking his then 9-month-old daughter out of his SUV when he was gunned down. The baby was found covered in her father's blood, but not injured.Bishop told police he shot de Andrade because the man had sworn at him during an earlier altercation.According to authorities, Bishop later spotted de Andrade on Main Street, drove by his SUV, circled back and fired three shots at de Andrade, one of which hit him in the head and killed him.On Thursday, de Andrade's mother, Maria Emilia Mendes, told the court through an interpreter that she feels the loss of her son every day.“I am never again the same person since the day I lost my child,” she said.She said she does not blame Bishop's family and harbors them no ill will.“I am here in front of the court to see justice done for my child,” she said.De Andrade's girlfriend, Anabela Fernandes, the mother of his now 3-year-old daughter, said her daughter asks each day for her father.“Justice has been done, however, my daughter has lost her father,” she said. “Now she asks me what happened.” Teixeira, a bishop of the Catholic Church of the Americas, acted as the interpreter for the two women in court.Orlando de Andrade, the slain man's brother, said the family doesn't know what to tell the child.“She is too young,” he said.De Andrade said he came to Superior Court seeking justice for his brother.He came wearing a pin bearing his brother's photo, name and the simple message: “Pray.”After the jury found Bishop guilty, de Andrade said he will leave the ultimate punishment to a higher authority.“I leave it in God's hands,” de Andrade said.
After we heard the sentence for the man who killed Heleno, we all drove to the Cemetery to pray and give Go'd thanks for the justice that was done.
Walter R. Bishop convicted in slaying of father on Main Street in “road rage” case
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer
BROCKTON— As the jury filed into the courtroom, Orlando de Andrade gently touched the photograph of his slain brother pinned over his heart.As the jury announced its guilty verdict for first-degree murder, de Andrade leaned his head down to kiss it.It was a silent tribute to justice and the life of his 27-year-old brother, Sandro de Andrade, who was gunned down two years ago on Main Street as he took his infant daughter out of his SUV.“It is in his memory,” his brother said.After deliberating for about five hours over two days, a four-man, eight-woman jury Thursday convicted Walter R. Bishop, 62, of Brockton, of first-degree murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and illegal possession of a firearm.Superior Court Judge Charles J. Hely sentenced Bishop to the mandatory sentence of life without parole on the murder charge.He also sentenced Bishop to a sentence of 5 to 5 1/2 years and a day on the assault and battery with a dangerous weapon conviction and 4 to 5 years in prison on the firearms charge. Those sentences will run concurrently with the life term.Sandro de Andrade's family, including the mother of his child, wept silently when the verdict was read and the sentence imposed.
Bishop, a former security guard, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced or when he was sentenced.His attorneys, Robert Sinsheimer and Tracy Bulger, unsuccessfully tried to convince the jury that Bishop was insane at the time of the shooting and not responsible for his actions.Prosecutors John Bradley and Peter McGuire convinced the jury that Bishop knew what he was doing and they brought in one witness who testified that the suspect told another inmate he was on trial for killing someone.Bishop, who was in a wheelchair and on oxygen in the courtroom, shot de Andrade outside a Main Street employment agency in Aug. 2, 2005, before horrified witnesses.
De Andrade was taking his then 9-month-old daughter out of his SUV when he was gunned down. The baby was found covered in her father's blood, but not injured.Bishop told police he shot de Andrade because the man had sworn at him during an earlier altercation.According to authorities, Bishop later spotted de Andrade on Main Street, drove by his SUV, circled back and fired three shots at de Andrade, one of which hit him in the head and killed him.On Thursday, de Andrade's mother, Maria Emilia Mendes, told the court through an interpreter that she feels the loss of her son every day.“I am never again the same person since the day I lost my child,” she said.She said she does not blame Bishop's family and harbors them no ill will.“I am here in front of the court to see justice done for my child,” she said.De Andrade's girlfriend, Anabela Fernandes, the mother of his now 3-year-old daughter, said her daughter asks each day for her father.“Justice has been done, however, my daughter has lost her father,” she said. “Now she asks me what happened.” Teixeira, a bishop of the Catholic Church of the Americas, acted as the interpreter for the two women in court.Orlando de Andrade, the slain man's brother, said the family doesn't know what to tell the child.“She is too young,” he said.De Andrade said he came to Superior Court seeking justice for his brother.He came wearing a pin bearing his brother's photo, name and the simple message: “Pray.”After the jury found Bishop guilty, de Andrade said he will leave the ultimate punishment to a higher authority.“I leave it in God's hands,” de Andrade said.
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