A part-time actor with credits on “Blue Bloods” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” played a real-life role torn from a crime drama script on Friday when he ]was sentenced to 25 years to life for shooting and killing a man who threw him out of a birthday bash.
A Queens jury needed less than two hours to convict Isaiah Stokes, 45, of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon earlier this month in connection with the shooting death of Tyrone Jones, 37, who was killed in Feb., 2021 as he sat in his car on a St. Albans street, months after the two men clashed at Jones’ birthday party at a Queens night spot.
Prosecutors said Stokes seethed for months after the diss, plotting his revenge through the holiday season and into the next year.
Court papers said the victim tossed Stokes from his birthday party in 2020 after he behaved inappropriately with several women at the club.
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Months later, on Jan. 29, 2021, prosecutors said, Stokes placed a GPS tracking device underneath Jones’ vehicle and used the signal to track Jones’ car.
Days later, on Feb. 7, while Jones sat in a rented Jeep near the corner of Linden Blvd. and 200th St. in St. Albans, Stokes got out of a parked SUV, walked past the Jeep, doubled back, and opened fire.
“For days, for weeks, for months, you stalked my son,” the victim’s father, Tyrone Jones Sr., said during the sentencing at Queens Criminal Court. “What did TJ do to you that you had to murder my son.”
Cops said Jones, who was getting ready to meet a woman at a lounge, was struck in his face and head numerous times and never had a chance. He died at the scene, where police recovered 10 shell casings from a 9mm weapon.
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“This was a calculated murder,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said in a statement after Stokes was convicted. “The defendant, a part-time actor, stewed for months after being thrown out of a birthday party for his own inappropriate behavior.”
After the murder, the suspect was later seen on video getting into a rented Audi that was eventually tracked to an assigned parking spot where Stokes lives in Rego Park, enabling police to learn his name.
He was arrested five months later.
Cops used a search warrant to find documents that connected Stokes to the GPS tracking device found beneath the victim’s vehicle, officials said.
Stokes offered an apology before complaining about a legal motion he said was not addressed.
