WHITE PLAINS – Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced that five G-Shine gang members and associates have been sentenced to state prison for conspiracy to murder an eyewitness.
Between August 2018 and March 2019, Jason Garcia conspired with Matthew Brown, Cassaundra Dunham, Laquanna Kershaw and Damien Richard to murder an eyewitness to a shooting outside the Garden Bar and Grill in Mount Vernon in 2016. Garcia and Brown were being held at Westchester County Jail awaiting trial on charges connected with the shooting, at which trial the eyewitness was scheduled to testify.
Garcia, 38, of Mount Vernon, and Rickard, 44, of Yonkers, were each convicted after trial.
Garcia, a discretionary persistent violent felony offender, was convicted of attempted murder, conspiracy, criminal possession of a weapon, and promoting prison contraband. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. That sentence will run consecutively to the 20 years to life Garcia received after trial for the Garden Bar shooting.
Rickard, a discretionary persistent felony offender, was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison to run concurrently with 20 years he received after pleading guilty to the Garden Bar shooting.
Brown, 37, of Wilmington, Delaware, pled guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.
Kershaw, 34, of Ossining, pled guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison.
Durham, 45, of Yonkers, was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison on his guilty plea to criminal possession of a weapon and four to 12 years on a guilty plea to conspiracy.
