Hajj Malik Lovick, 48, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting a man outside a bar in Bed-Stuy. His lawyer tried to argue for leniency by highlighting his community involvement, including building the viral 'Bed-Stuy Aquarium' in a cracked sidewalk. Prosecutors countered that the shooting took place less than a block from the aquarium.
built the beloved sidewalk fish pond while out on bail in an attempted murder case — for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday.
Lovick was convicted following a week-long trial in December of attempted murder, assault and gun charges for shooting a 51-year-old man outside the Lover’s Rock bar in Bed-Stuy on June 15, 2023. But Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Alejandro Vera mocked the so-called aquarium’s impact on the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, noting that it was built “less than a block away” from where the caught-on-camera shooting took place.
“He made a conscious, premeditated decision to walk away, to go get a gun and to come back… , he could have killed anyone of the many people that were standing on the crowded sidewalk at that time. He put that very community in grave danger.” The neighborhood favorite — located on Tompkins Avenue and Hancock Street — quickly went viral before the FDNY turned off the hydrant and officialsresurrecting the aquarium in a tree pit next to the concrete-slabbed pondaround Christmas when frigid temperatures and snow barreled through the Big Apple — but organizers claimed the fish are alive and swimming in a secret location.
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