WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison on Friday for the murder of 28-year-old Mount Vernon resident Kashawn Smith.
After a three-week trial, a jury on February 7, 2023, found John Bobbitt, 45, guilty of murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
On April 28, 2020, at approximately 10 p.m., following a verbal dispute with the victim, whom he knew, Bobbitt used a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol to shoot Smith five times, striking him in the head, chest, torso and back, on Millington Street in Mount Vernon.
Smith was transported to Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Bobbitt was apprehended at a relative’s home in Newark, New Jersey, on July 13, 2020, following an investigation by the Mount Vernon Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Newark Police Department, the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
After his arrest, he was returned to New York.
