Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley today issued the following statement on today’s sentencing of TERRELL MUHAMMAD (D.O.B. 12/8/63) in a Rhode Island courthouse to 15 years in prison with 13 to serve and the balance suspended with probation:

“Time after time, violent offense after violent offense, Terrell Muhammad has proven himself to be a threat to anyone who crossed his path,” Conley said. “This sentence is appropriate not only to his offenses in Rhode Island but also to his extensive criminal record. I hope it provides some sense of satisfaction to the families of Tommy Rose and Angela Skeete, to the Rhode Island officers he attacked, and to all the others this man has hurt.”

Muhammad was previously convicted in Massachusetts of the 1986 shooting death of Angela Skeete in Dorchester and the 1993 shooting death of Boston Police Officer Thomas F. Rose, Sr., in downtown Boston.

Muhammad was prosecuted in the most recent case by the office of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin. In that case, Muhammad attempted to run down Cranston Police officers on July 30, 2010, while fleeing a veterans’ hospital from which he’d stolen a television.