A 24-year-old man was convicted of attempted murder and other related offences to the insane shooting of a rookie cop after an April 2023 altercation in broad daylight in Jamaica, Queens, the local attorney said.

Devin Spraggins, 24, was convicted of attempted first degree murder, first degree assault, aggravated assault on a police officer, assault on a police officer, attempted assault in the first degree and threatening a police officer , as well as two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, tampering with physical evidence and third-degree assault, the prosecutor said Wednesday District of Queens, Melinda Katz.

Spraggins is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 2. He faces up to 40 years to life in prison on the attempted murder charge.

The conviction is in connection with a shooting that occurred on April 5, 2023. According to the charges and trial testimony, it was that day at around 3:20 p.m. that Spraggins was on an MTA bus on Jamaica Avenue when he struck a passenger. as the bus approached 160th Street. The bus driver greeted Officer Anthony Rock, who then greeted his partner, Officer Brett Roller. The two tried to talk to Spraggins at the front door of the bus, but Spraggins pushed Boller away and ran. Both officers then ran after Spraggins.

Boller caught Spraggins, when Spraggins turned and shot him, piercing the femoral artery and vein in Boller’s upper thigh and breaking his hip. Spraggins tried to shoot Boller again, but the gun was out of bullets because he had dropped his magazine while running from the police.

Spraggins then dropped his gun, took a sharpshooter’s position and aimed at Rock.

Spraggins then ran into a parking lot, where he was seen on video surveillance footage removing his black jacket and hoodie and leaving in a white T-shirt.

Police found a shell casing near the scene of the shooting and a magazine loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition at the corner of Jamaica and 161st avenues.^St Street.

Security camera footage showed Spraggins at 161^St Street and Hillside Avenue entering a black Nissan, identified as a Lyft rental vehicle that took him to a residence on 215^th Street, the prosecutor said.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for the home and recovered sneakers believed to belong to the suspect, NBC New York previously reported. The man was not at the home when they arrived, but NYPD officials say the warrant turned up a lot of evidence that eventually led them to an address in the Bronx apparently linked to him. Spraggins was there and was caught.

Spraggins’ arrest came the same evening authorities announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of — then doubled it to $20,000 the same day.

He was not known to the NYPD before the case and has no known arrests, officials said. They described him as a transient who also has some ties to the Poughkeepsie area.

Boller, who was 22 at the time of the shooting, underwent surgery for his gunshot wounds at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Rock, 22 at the time, was not injured.

“Devin Spraggins attempted to murder a New York City police officer in cold blood in April 2023 after he was stopped by officers for fighting with another passenger on an MTA bus,” Katz said. “The defendant shot police officer Brett Boller point blank. and it is only because of extraordinary medical intervention that Officer Boller is alive today and this is not a murder case.