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Judge Kenneth F. Case sentenced Sir Raven Rodgers to 20 years for the Buffalo killing of Rafael Ruiz Quinones.
On Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 2026, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Erie County Court Judge Kenneth F. Case sentenced Sir Raven Rodgers, 31, of Buffalo, to 20 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision as a second violent felony offender. He pleaded guilty in July 2026 to manslaughter in the first degree, a Class B violent felony, in full satisfaction of the indictment. WIVB and WNY News Now reported the case.
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Twenty years and five years of post-release supervision is the term Judge Case imposed after Rodgers pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree. The plea was in full satisfaction of the indictment. The court sentenced him as a second violent felony offender.
The Erie County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, that Judge Kenneth F. Case sentenced Sir Raven Rodgers that morning. Rodgers is 31 and from Buffalo. The term is 20 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision. The office said he was sentenced as a second violent felony offender. WIVB reported that sentence, that age, and that post-release term, citing the district attorney's office.
In July 2026, Rodgers pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter in the first degree, a Class B violent felony, in full satisfaction of the indictment. WNY News Now reported that July plea. A plea in full satisfaction of the indictment resolves the indictment on the count he admitted. Tuesday morning is when the judge imposed the term on that plea.
The district attorney's office said that on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, at about 9:30 p.m., Rodgers shot Rafael Ruiz Quinones with an illegal gun on Isabelle Street near Laird Avenue in Buffalo. Quinones was 47. He was pronounced dead at the scene. WIVB reported the same date, time, and street, and that Quinones was pronounced dead at the scene. Those are the facts the prosecutors put with the plea.
District Attorney Michael J. Keane's office said the case was prosecuted by Chief Christopher S. Safulko of the Major Crimes Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Ryan M. Flaherty of the Homicide Bureau, and it named Buffalo Police Detective Joseph Ruggiero. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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