A Bay Shore man convicted in the 2022 fatal shooting of his former fiancee at the New Hyde Park medical office where she worked was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Friday in Mineola.
Quay Sean Hines, 33, did not express remorse for the death of Amelia Laguerre or acknowledge his former fiancée's family before or after he was sentenced by acting State Supreme Court Justice Robert Bogle.
"Sean, you were supposed to love Amelia, but instead you took her life," Laguerre's mother, Emily Bennett of Queens, while delivering a victim impact statement.
A Nassau County jury convicted Hines -- after deliberating for less than two hours -- of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon on September 26.
Authorities said Hines fatally shot Laguerre 10 times in the parking garage of the Northwell Health where she had worked. Laguerre, the mother of a young son, had worked for Northwell Health for a decade before she was gunned down. She was 33 years old when she died.
Hines' attorneys, Scott Gross and Gregory Zak, did not return requests for comment.
Bogle sentenced Hines to 25 years to life in prison for the fatal shooting of his on-again, off-again fiancee. The judge also sentenced Hines to 15 years for each of the weapons charges and ordered that the sentences run consecutively, not concurrently.
Before handing down the sentence, Bogle showed Hines a photo of Laguerre's now 8-years-old son, Mason, and said he stole her from the boy and other family members.
"A heart never heals, and that is what we have here today," Bogle said before condemning Hines' "cold-blooded acts."
Authorities said Hines and Laguerre had a tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship before Laguerre decided to end it for good, according to Donnelly.
Nassau police said immediately after the slaying that Hines had become abusive to his former fiancee. He also was accused of breaking into her apartment and burning her clothes. Police said Hines was obsessed with getting back together with Laguerre and had stalked her at work.
Hines entered the underground garage of Northwell Health's Marcus Avenue office in the late afternoon of March 31, 2022, with a loaded firearm and shot Laguerre before fleeing the scene, authorities said.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired, and Laguerre was transported to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, where she was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later.