NEW YORK (AP) — A Queens man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for trying to kill a romantic rival by setting him on fire.
Stephan Schlackman of Far Rockaway was sentenced Thursday in the 2011 attack on Brian Sherman-Brown.
Schlackman believed Sherman-Brown was having an affair with the mother of his three children.
Prosecutors said the 46-year-old Schlackman placed a gasoline-filled container at Sherman-Brown’s home and tried to light it.
He was caught in the act and confronted by Sherman-Brown and his roommate, Taryl Jackson.
The three men struggled and Schlackman fled, leaving a pool of blood at the scene.
Schlackman’s first trial ended with a hung jury last year.
He was convicted after a second trial in July of attempted murder, second-degree attempted arson and reckless endangerment.
