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 

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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, Brown forced the girls to get dressed and walk over Maxwell’s body as he rushed them out of the apartment. He then took them to his mother’s home and never called 911 or told anyone what had happened.

It took three days before police discovered Maxwell’s body, responding to 911 calls about a foul odor coming from her apartment on Arnow Avenue. Inside, officers found her covered with a blanket, a bloody floor, and several bullet holes in the wall. Brown was later tracked to his mother’s home, where police also recovered a loaded gun.