WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man convicted of stabbing another man to death in June 2019, was sentenced on Monday to 18 years to life in prison.
Savion Kirton, 27, was found guilty for killing Jermial Rose on April 21 in the first Westchester County Court trial since last fall because of COVID-19.
A short time before the murder, Kirton’s girlfriend was in a local store in Mount Vernon when Rose brushed up against her. She returned to her apartment and told Kirton what happened. Armed with a folding knife, Kirton went to the store, confronted Rose on the sidewalk outside and stabbed Rose in the left side of the neck with enough force that the knife crossed his throat and severed his right carotid artery, killing him.
Security camera video captured the attack. The knife with Rose’s DNA, was later located in Kirton’s girlfriend’s apartment.
Rose’s sister spoke at the sentencing saying her brother “never got a chance to live and reach all his goals in life.”
