Mount Vernon Man, 33, Pleads Guilty to Murder of Security Guard

Mount Vernon resident Dontan Jenkins, 33, pleaded to Second Degree Murder and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in connection with the July 2014 killing of security guard Richard Brown, Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced.

Jenkins, who was also a security guard at the Levister Towers Apartment complex in Mount Vernon, shot and killed Brown after the pair had two altercations on the job.

According to DiFiore, Jenkins was a licensed, unarmed security guard supervisor, and Brown had only been employed as a security guard at the building for 10 days at the time of the incident.

In the early morning hours of July 21, 2014, after the two men had argued, Jenkins “returned to the apartment complex, approached [Brown] who was manning the security guard booth and fired 3 shots through the front plexi-glass window striking and killing [him].”

Mount Vernon Police responded to the scene and arrested Jenkins a short time later.

Jenkins has been remanded to the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla and is scheduled to be sentenced in October. He faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison.

Assistant District Attorney Perry Perrone, Chief of the Homicide Bureau is prosecuting the case.

Photo: Dontan Jenkins. Photo credit: Westchester County District Attorney’s office