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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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Gunman Sentenced in Ambush Shooting of Alberto DeJesus

Fight at Food Truck Led to Murder of Innocent

Alberto DeJesus was fatally shot for a fight the victim was not involved in.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 7, 2022 


BRONX - The gunman who stalked and fatally shot a Bronx man, following a dispute the victim was not involved in, will spend the next two decades in prison.

 


Prosecutors announced the sentencing of Tujuan Ford to 21 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Alberto DeJesus. Ford, 25, had pled guilty to manslaughter in connection with the shooting. 

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On June 30, 2019, Ford had gotten into a fight with a group of men outside a food truck on East 149th Street and Southern Boulevard. Prosecutors said DeJesus was with the group but was not part of the fight. 



DeJesus left the group and went to a nearby building on Avenue of St. John. Ford followed and shot him at the building. 


DeJesus collapsed in the lobby of the building. He died a short time later at Lincoln Hospital.



“The defendant initially got into a fight with a group of people," said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. "After they dispersed, he went to a building where the opposing group retreated to and opened fire. He shot the victim — who was not part of the fight — four times, killing him and putting all surrounding neighbors at risk.”


DeJesus’ death set off a wave of protests in community. By all accounts the victim was a good man killed by violence he had nothing to do with. At the time neighbors compared his murder to that of Lesandro “Junior”Guzman-Feliz - the teen who was stabbed to death by a group of gang members who wrongly thought he was part of a rival gang.



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