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Bronx Local News: Bronx Man Gets 20 Years to Life for Killing Estranged Wife as Their Daughters Were Home

Killer had his Daughters Walk Past their Mom’s Dead Body After he Shot Her   File Photo Bronx Voice  November 21, 2025 BRONX LOCAL NEWS - A Bronx man will spend at least the next two decades behind bars after admitting he shot and killed his estranged wife while their two young daughters were inside the apartment, prosecutors said. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that 50-year-old Lacon Brown was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for second-degree murder. Clark didn’t mince words about the impact of the crime, saying Brown “took their mother away and traumatized these girls,” and that she hopes his long sentence brings the children some measure of solace. Brown pleaded guilty in September to killing Cindy Maxwell, 45, during a violent attack inside her Allerton apartment on August 23, 2023. According to investigators, the couple’s daughters—just 11 and 6 years old—heard the gunshots that killed their mother.  After the shooting, ...
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Train Conductor Sucker Punched in Bronx

Police are looking for this man in connection with an unprovoked attack on a subway train conductor.


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 26, 2022


BRONX - A Bronx train conductor was sucker punched in the face by a deranged passenger at the subway station near Hostos College. 






The attack happened at the East 149th Street and Grand Concourse subway station near Hostos College. At around 7:30 pm on September 20, the Number 2 train had just pulled into the station and the train conductor opened the window to his car. Suddenly a man ran up to him and punched him in the face. 



The attacker fled. 


The conductor was transported down the block to Lincoln Hospital where he is listed in stable condition. 


Anyone with information should call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls remain confidential.


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