Years-Long Investigation Leads To Murder Charge For Man In Region

A Hudson Valley man has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting and killing another man in a car and then setting the vehicle on fire.

A Stony Point man is behind bars for allegedly shooting a man to death and leaving him in a burning car.
Photo Credit: *New York State Police*

Kathy Reakes

02/13/2024 9:00 a.m.

Rockland County resident Robert Rodriguez, age 36, from Stony Point, was arrested on Friday, Feb. 9. for the Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 incident.

According to New York State Police, troopers responded to find a 2021 Hyundai Sonata fully engulfed in flames southbound on the Palisades Parkway near Exit 16 in Stony Point.

An investigation revealed that Ronald Mann, from the Bronx, was dead inside the vehicle. The Rockland County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Mann had suffered from a gunshot wound, and his death was ruled a homicide.

An extensive investigation by the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation led to the arrest of Rodriguez.

He was arraigned in the Town of Stony Point Justice Court and remanded to Rockland County Jail without bail.

State Police were assisted in the investigation by:

New York State Fire
Stony Point Police Department
Town of Haverstraw Police Department
Suffern Police Department
Rockland County Sheriff’s Office.

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