WHIE PLAINS – A 17-year-old Yonkers resident was sentenced in Westchester County for the 2019 shooting death of a Yonkers teen who was walking with her younger sister on the street.
District Attorney Miriam Rocah said Jamir Thompson, 17, was sentenced on Thursday to nine years to life in state prison.
Thompson pled guilty on July 8 to murder for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Marilyn Cotto-Montanez.
On April 25, 2019 at about 6;30 p.m., Thompson, who was 15 at the time, fired his gun at another boy, but instead fatally shot Cotto-Montanez, an innocent bystander, in the head, as she was walking on Morningside Avenue in Yonkers with her nine-year-old sister.
Thompson fled the scene but Yonkers Police identified him after interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance videos.
He surrendered to the police on May 7, 2019 and was arrested.
“It is absolutely tragic that Marilyn Cotto-Montanez lost her life while doing something as simple as walking with her sibling and horrific that her younger had to witness this,” said Rocah.
