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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, ...

Friends Fear Missing Woman May be Abused

$500 Reward Offered

A missing persons flyer at Wester Avenue and East 202 Street in Norwood seeks information on the whereabouts of Hollyann Smith, 24, who reportedly disappeared from Webster Avenue in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.


By David Greene

Bronx Voice

November 9, 2022

 

BRONX - Frantic family members and friends of a missing Connecticut woman are offering a $500 reward for the safe return of Hollyann Smith, 24, who was last heard from on October 25, somewhere along Webster Avenue.

 

Smith, who is 5 foot 2 and 90-pounds, was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, ripped blue jeans and Nike's Air Force sneakers. According to flyers posted along Webster Avenue in Norwood and along East Fordham Road, Smith has tattoos on her arms and collar bone.

 

According to "Angelica," a Connecticut resident and close friend of Smith's who made the fliers herself, told Norwood News on October 30, "I'm going back over there tonight. I finally just got proof that she's in danger, but they (the police) weren't able to make an NYPD report until I had proof."

 

Angelica recalled, "I definitely know she was in the Bronx, around Webster Avenue and I tried Fordham because a lot of people told me that Fordham is where people (who) get trafficked are."


A missing persons flyer at Wester Avenue and East 202 Street in Norwood seeks information on the whereabouts of Hollyann Smith, 24, who reportedly disappeared from Webster Avenue in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.--Photo by David Greene



Asked why she thought her friend may be in danger, Angelica replied, "She was in an abusive relationship... and I know she told me she was getting beat up and she wanted me to come get her," adding that Smith never gave her the exact address on Webster Avenue.




 

Anyone with any information on Smith's whereabouts are asked to call Angelica at (203) 343-3405, or the NYPD.





Meanwhile, police in Manhattan were looking for Alexandria Labour, 15, described as a Hispanic female. Labour is 5 foot 4 and weighs 96 pounds. Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD Missing Persons Squad at (212) 694-7781 or the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1 (800) 577-TIPS.   

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