Jury Verdict In 2008 Yonkers Taxi Murder

A former Yonkers resident was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2008 death of a Yonkers cab driver after a cold case investigation. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. said Damon Scott, 42, formerly of Yonkers, was found guilty by a jury Wednesday, after a short deliberation.

Scott is scheduled for sentencing Nov. 13. He faces 25 years to life.

Scarpino said, on June 16, 2008, around 4:50 a.m., a Lincoln town car taxi pulled up in front of Mexico Car service on South Broadway in Yonkers where Jerome Hancock, 35, was waiting for a cab.

Scott shot Hancock from the front passenger side window striking him in the left upper chest, killing him.

The vehicle drove off.

Witnesses at the scene call 911 and members of the Yonkers Police Department responded.

At the time of the murder, Scott was a driver for Yonkers Union Taxi.

Police said Scott fled to Georgia in an attempt to elude police.

For almost 10 years, he remained in Georgia living under aliases, unknown to Westchester authorities.

In 2013, Yonkers Police Cold Case Unit reopened the investigation.

In 2017, Scott was apprehended in Alpharetta, Georgia, on an unrelated matter. It took Georgia police some time to confirm his identity.

When they did, they notified the Yonkers Police Department and an arrest warrant was lodged.

Scott waived extradition. He was returned to Westchester County where he faced the murder charge.

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