PEOPLE v. RIVERA

Defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence establishing depraved indifference murder is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that the jury could have reasonably concluded that defendant lacked homicidal intent, but instead acted under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life when he impulsively began firing wildly in a small grocery store, endangering numerous persons ( see People v. Payne, 3 NY3d 266, 272; People v. Sanchez, 98 NY2d 373).

The record establishes that defendant received effective assistance of counsel ( see People v. Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713-714; People v. Hobot, 84 NY2d 1021, 1024; see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 US 668).

We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining claims.