Bronx Man Convicted in Shooting Death of Meriden's Tashawn Bromfield

BRONX, NY - A 23-year-old Bronx, NY, man was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the shooting death of 16-year-old Meriden resident Tashawn Bromfield, announced Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark.

Reginald Goldman was "prowling rival gang turf with a gun," according to Clark, when he fatally shot Bromfield in the courtyard of a building on Fenton Avenue in Williamsbridge.

“Tashawn Bromfield was an innocent victim of the pervasive gang and gun culture that has devastated neighborhoods and families in the Bronx," said District Attorney Clark in a statement. "This verdict sends a message that we will not tolerate violence as a way of life.”

Goldman was convicted of first-degree Manslaughter after a two-week trial before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Martin Marcus, and he now faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 1.

According to Clark and trial testimony, Bromfield was in the Bronx visiting his father in August 2010. Shortly after midnight on August 14, Bromfield was socializing with friends in the courtyard when Goldman, then 18 and a member of the Young Gunnerz gang, yelled, “YGs up,” and fired two shots from a passing car.

Goldman and the other occupants in the car would go to rival gangs’ neighborhoods to scare them, according to trial testimony, and on the night in question they were in the area of the Young Bosses gang.

Bromfield was struck in the spine, heart, lung and stomach, and was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital, according to Clark.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Lisa Davis of the Gangs/Major Case Bureau, and Jordan Hummel of the Appeals Bureau.