L.I. man gets 30 years for killing childhood friend and another men over a loan

A Long Island antheral has been sentenced to 30 years successful authorities situation for fatally shooting 2 men —  including his puerility friend — successful the outpouring of 2022, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Last month, 50-year-old Brian Cordovano, of Ronkonkoma, pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of manslaughter successful the decease of Ian Saalfield, 45, and Robert Julian, 59, successful what Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney described arsenic a “selfish and inexplicable enactment of violence.”

According to investigators, Cordovano’s person Saalfield was reported missing by his woman connected April 26, 2022.

She told constabulary the past clip she saw her hubby had been the erstwhile nighttime erstwhile she saw Saalfied and Cordovano leaving the couple’s Lake Grove location astir 8 p.m. Her hubby ne'er returned location aft that.

Both men were successful Saalfield’s achromatic 2015 Lexus, officials said.

The car was located by constabulary successful a parking batch successful Holtsville connected May 2 — the aforesaid time officials responded to a telephone of a antheral suffering from an overdose astatine a motel successful Ronkonkoma.

That antheral was Cordovano, constabulary said.

While helium was transported to a adjacent hospital, investigators determined a nexus betwixt a metallic 2004 Toyota Corolla near successful the motel parking batch and Cordovano.

The Corolla belonged to Julian, officials learned. When Suffolk County Police reported to Julian’s location successful Selden, they recovered the bodies of Saalfield and Julian inside. Both had gunshot wounds to the head.

Cordovano changeable some men astatine adjacent range, prosecutors said.

The brutal crime, which took spot astatine Julian’s location connected April 25, was described by prosecutors arsenic a deadly program to bargain from a person who nary longer wished to indebtedness Cordovano immoderate money, Newsday reported.

Cordovano, who had been charged with 2 counts of murder, pleaded blameworthy connected Oct. 9 to the lesser complaint of manslaughter, arsenic good arsenic robbery and weapons charges.