WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man was sentenced to 25 years in state prison for the fatal shooting of a 41-year-old Mount Vernon man.
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah said at about 11:30 p.m. on March 4, 2022, Heyward Bradshaw had a verbal dispute with the victim, Kwasi Kirton, who he knew, inside a bodega.
The dispute spilled outside where Bradshaw chased Kirton and shot him nine times with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
Bradshaw fired five shots at him from the sidewalk and after Kirton fell to the ground, ran up to him and shot him four more times before fleeing inside a nearby apartment building and then to Connecticut.
The incident was captured on surveillance video.
Kirton was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Mount Vernon Police located and arrested Bradshaw in an apartment in the Bronx on March 6, 2022.
The Westchester County Department of Public Safety, the County Department of Public Safety’s Real Time Crime Center and the Stamford Police Department assisted in the investigation.
