Yonkers Man Sentenced In Crash That Killed His Passenger

A Yonkers man was sentenced for up to nine years in prison Tuesday for the 2017 crash that killed one of his passengers and injured another. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. said Renzo Yance, 22, of Yonkers was sentenced to two to six years in prison for second-degree manslaughter, a felony, and one to three years for first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, a felony.

The sentences will run consecutively. Yance pleaded guilty to the charges May 1.

Around 7:15 p.m. Aug. 26, 2017, Yonkers police reported an overturned BMW was found on Central Park Avenue near Sadore Lane, with a woman passenger having been ejected from the vehicle further down the road. She was unconscious and unresponsive at the time. Later, 19-year-old Nina Cordero, who had been in the back seat, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The front-seat passenger was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Yance was driving without a license at more than 100 miles an hour on a city road, and it was that high speed that contributed to the crash, authorities said.

Only 20 days earlier, on Aug. 6, 2017, Yance had been charged with driving without a license and under the influence of drugs in Dobbs Ferry.

In court Tuesday, Edwin Cordero, the father of Nina Cordero, gave a victim’s statement, saying of his daughter that his family was grateful for every moment they spent with her.

He said to Yance, “I never felt hatred, but there is no peace, forgiveness or mercy in me. You will have to find it from God. But it will never come from me or my family.”

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