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Westchester Teen Sentenced For Fatal Shooting Of HS Student Walking Down Street With Sister
A Westchester County teen has been sentenced for the 2019 shooting death of another teen who was simply walking with her younger sister on a street.
Jamir Thompson, age 17, of Yonkers, was sentenced to nine years to life in prison on Thursday, Sept. 2, pled guilty in July for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Marilyn Cotto-Montanez, said District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah.
On Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 6:30 p.m., Thompson, who was 15 at the time, fired his gun at another male but instead fatally shot Cotto-Montanez, an innocent bystander, in the head, as she walked on Morningside Ave…