WHITE PLAINS – An Elmsford man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the fatal shooting of a passenger sitting in a parked car in Yonkers in 2015, and seriously wounding the man in the driver’s seat.
Dontae Degree, 30, of Elmsford, was found guilty by a jury trial in February of murder, attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
On August 25, 2015 at about 1:35 p.m., several gunshots rang out in front of 127 Morningside Avenue in Yonkers.
A city police officer who was nearby raced to the location and discovered two men who had been shot sitting in the front seats of a Hyundai Sonata.
Degree had crept up behind the car occupied by the victims and fired several shots a them. Kenneth Hill, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was killed. Roylin Fairclough was seriously injured but survived.
Hill was shot in the head, neck and spinal cord. Fairclough was shot in the head, shoulder and back. He underwent surgery at an area hospital.
Degree was arrested by Yonkers Police on October 19, 2015.
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