NEW YORK – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) took custody of Carlos Celestino
Payne-Archer, 64, May 21.
Payne-Archer, a Panamanian national, was convicted in the
first-degree murder of Joseph Taylor, Jr., a New York City Police Department
(NYPD) detective.
On March 30, 1978, a judge sentenced Payne-Archer, also
known as Karl Dean, to 25 years to life in prison for the shooting death of
Taylor in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1995, an immigration judge ordered Payne-Archer’s
removal, after he was identified as a deportable alien inmate by the legacy
Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Institutional Removal Program.
Payne-Archer, who initially entered the United States as a visitor in 1973,
will remain in ICE custody pending his removal to Panama.
On Aug. 29, 1977, Taylor and his partner, Officer Roy
DeSetto, were responding to a 911 emergency call about a man with a gun at an
apartment in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, according to police
reports.
Upon identifying themselves as police officers, Taylor and
DeSetto were met with gunfire as they tried to enter the apartment. Taylor, who
was struck in the chest by a shotgun blast, succumbed to his injury.
DeSetto, who continued to engage the five assailants inside
the apartment with gunfire, fatally wounded one. Two other assailants tried to
escape through a window while Payne-Archer, who also sustained a gunshot wound
during the firefight, was later charged in Taylor’s death.
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