Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, 33, of Hempstead, a former Stop and Shop employee, was convicted Wednesday of the second-degree murder of his supervisor and attempting to kill two co-workers at the West Hempstead supermarket in April 2021.
The jury deliberated for less than six hours before reaching their verdict. Wilson faces sentencing June 8. He faces up to 90 years to life in prison.
Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly described the scene on the day of the murder: “Disgruntled employee Gabriel Wilson entered the West Hempstead Stop and Shop with a loaded semi-automatic gun and the intent to kill. The defendant went into an office on the second floor, pointed his weapon at two coworkers and struck both of them. He then proceeded to another room where he encountered 49-year-old Raymond Wishropp, the grocery manager, who was eating a sandwich on his lunch break, and shot the man directly in the chest at point-blank range.”
Wilson was not scheduled to work on the morning of April 20, 2021. After the shootings, Donnelly said, Wilson “calmly left the building and walked to Hempstead where he was subsequently arrested due to the brave police work of the Nassau County and Hempstead police departments. This defendant has shown zero remorse for his actions.”
