15YO Wanted In Fatal Shooting Turned Himself In: UPDATE

YONKERS, NY — The teen wanted in connection with the killing of Marilyn Cotto Montanez turned himself in early Tuesday morning to police officers at the Yonkers Police 3rd Precinct on Riverdale Avenue. Police said that, shortly before 1 a.m., Jamir Thompson, 15, of Yonkers, who was in the company of his mother and an attorney, presented himself to officers and was placed into custody without incident.

He was taken to the Yonkers Police Youth Services Division on North Broadway where he was processed on the warrant for his arrest.

Detectives then transferred Thompson to the Westchester County Court in White Plains where he will be arraigned by a Superior Court judge in the Youth Part of Criminal Court.

He was booked on single charge of second-degree murder, a felony, police said. Authorities said it was expected that Thompson will be sent to a juvenile detention facility subsequent to his arraignment as a juvenile offender.

Police said, on April 25, Thompson had taken a gold chain by force from another person; that person and Thompson along with others later engaged in a dispute in the area of Lake Avenue at Morningside Avenue, where Thompson displayed a handgun and fired at least one shot in the direction of the other group.

That shot struck 18-year-old Cotto Montanez, a Yonkers resident, according to authorities. She was an unintended target and innocent victim. A 9mm cartridge casing was recovered from scene, police said.

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano said Thompson's surrender was the result of hard work by the Yonkers police.

"Their tireless efforts in tracking this individual gave him no other choice than to turn himself in for his heinous crime against a young woman with a bright future," he said.

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