Arrest Made In Violent Westchester Home Invasion: Police

MOUNT VERNON, NY — A Mount Vernon man was able to identify his attacker as an acquaintance, after he was brutally attacked and pistol-whipped in the basement of his home, police said.

On Wednesday, shortly before 4:30 p.m., Mount Vernon police were called to South 7th Avenue on a report of a man shot. Officers found Andre Letts laying on the sidewalk, bleeding from an injury to the back of his head. He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx where he is listed in stable condition.

Letts was inside the basement of his South 7th Avenue home, when Andre Malcolm, an acquaintance, entered the home and attacked him, according to investigators. Letts told police that he was struck with a handgun and that as he was struck the gun was fired.

Evidence at the scene led police to believe that there was indeed a shot fired inside the house, but Letts was not struck by the gunshot. The firearm was not recovered.

Detectives quickly zeroed in on Malcolm as the suspect and took him into custody a short time after the attack.

Malcolm was charged with two counts of burglary, assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon. He was arraigned in Mount Vernon City Court.