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WHITE PLAINS – A Westchester County jury has convicted a former
Yonkers man of murder in the death of a Yonkers cab driver in 2008.
Damon Scott, 42, was convicted just a few hours after Judge George Fufidio
charged the jury on Wednesday.
Scott faces 25 years to life in prison when sentenced next month.
It was on June 16, 2008 at about 4:50 p.m. when Scott drove up alongside
the victim, Jerome Hancock, 35, who was waiting for a cab in front of
Mexico Car Service on South Broadway in Yonkers.
Scott opened fire striking him in the chest and killing him, and then
drove off. Scott was a driver for Yonkers was a driver for Yonkers Union
Taxi.
Witnesses at the scene of the shooting called 911 and Yonkers Police responded.
Scott fled to Georgia in an attempt to elude police. For almost a year,
he remained in Georgia living under several aliases, unknown to Westchester
Authorities.
In 2013, the Yonkers Police Cold Case Unit reopened the case.
Scott was arrested in Alpharetta, Georgia on an unrelated matter in 2017.
It took police in Georgia some time to confirm his identity. When they
did, they notified Yonkers Police. An arrest warrant was lodged; Scott
waived extradition and was returned to Westchester where he faced the
murder charge.
