Mount Vernon guy arrested in town’s first murder of 2022
A person has been charged with second-degree homicide in connection to a deadly taking pictures over the weekend in Mount Vernon.
Heyward Bradshaw III of Mount Vernon was once taken into custody Sunday outdoor a Bronx condominium construction that was once beneath surveillance.
He’s accused of taking pictures 41-year-old Kwasi Kirton, additionally a Mount Vernon resident, more than one instances following an altercation overdue Friday evening close to the intersection of 3rd Boulevard and 3rd Street. It was once the town’s first murder of the yr.
Bradshaw, 33, was once held in a single day at police headquarters and is scheduled for arraignment in Town Court docket on Monday.
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A press free up saying Bradshaw’s arrest didn’t cope with the character of the altercation or how Bradshaw was once recognized as a suspect.
Mount Vernon detectives and contributors of the FBI Westchester Secure Streets Job Pressure regarded for Bradshaw over the weekend sooner than monitoring him to an condominium construction on Palmer Street within the Bronx. Once they noticed him emerge with two different males they took him into custody with out incident.
Kirton was once acquitted in December on a federal weapon price that stemmed from a March 2020 taking pictures on East 3rd Boulevard. He was once accused of being a prior to now convicted felon in ownership of ammunition. Kirton had a 1998 criminal conviction for drug ownership. He were held with out bail from his arrest in Would possibly 2020 till his acquittal.
His brother, Negus Kirton, is anticipating trial within the Would possibly 2020 taking pictures dying of Michael Toro on Darling Street. Court docket paperwork published that police suspected Toro was once killed over a red meat he had with Kwasi Kirton.
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