Endless Sentences Series: Thomas Disla Gets 98 Months for Bronx Shooting Spree, His Father Was an Architect in Morocco Now Florida - More here
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Aug 17 – Thomas Disla was born in Casablanca, Morocco. But it was in The Bronx on June 3, 2022 when Disla shot one man in the upper leg, then later fired two shots at a car and one into the ceiling of a local bar.
The case was Federalized and he was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 17, 2023:
"THOMAS DISLA was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman to 98 months in prison in connection with a shooting spree he committed on June 3 and 4, 2022. Over the course of 12 hours, DISLA shot an acquaintance in the groin, shot at a stranger who was driving a car, and brandished a firearm in the middle of crowded bar before striking a patron and shooting the firearm at the ceiling. DISLA previously pled guilty to one count of possessing ammunition after conviction for a felony."
There was more to it, found by Inner City Press in the docket and beyond: Thomas Disla was born in Casablanca, Morocco to an American father there in the Peace Corps and a Morocco mother. They'd move abruptly back to The Bronx where, now having no servants - who knew a Peace Corps-er had servants - the Moroccan mother, unnamed, went to seed....
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Soon Thomas Disla, sent to the store by his mother to buy cigarettes, assaulted someone and was a felon and now he'd gone and done it, a single day in June 2022 in The Bronx he'd shot one man in the leg and then fired bullet at a car that was driving away and finally pumped one into the ceiling of a bar and now was in the MDC rotting...
Max Disla, the architect father, had written in from Florida to --
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