Mount Vernon Man Gets 25 Years For Fatal Shooting Of Kwasi Kirton

MOUNT VERNON, NY — A Mount Vernon man was sentenced to decades behind bars for the ruthless shoting death of a 41-year-old.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced on Thursday that Heyward Bradshaw has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the fatal shooting of 41-year-old Mount Vernon resident Kwasi Kirton.

"A dangerous offender who opened fire on a defenseless man is now off our streets," Rocah said in a statement announcing the sentence. "We hope today’s sentence brings some measure of justice for Kwasi Kirton’s family."

Bradshaw pleaded guilty on May 19 to felony manslaughter in the first degree. He will also be subject to five years of post-release supervision.

On March 4, 2022, just after 11:3o p.m., Harrsion got into an argument with Kirton, whom he knew, inside a bodega. The dispute spilled outside where Harrison chased Kirton and shot at him nine times using a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.

Harris first fired once from the sidewalk, then fired four shots on East 3rd Street in Mount Vernon. After Kirton fell to the ground, Harrison ran up to him and shot him four more times before fleeing inside a nearby apartment building and eventually to Connecticut.

The cold-hearted incident was captured on surveillance video.

Kirton, who was shot seven times in the chest, neck, thigh, shoulder and forearm, was taken to Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Mount Vernon Police Department located and arrested Harrison at an apartment in the Bronx on March 6, following an investigation with the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force. With assistance from the FBI, police executed a search warrant and recovered the gun used in the killing.

The Westchester County Department of Public Safety, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety’s Real Time Crime Center and the Stamford Police Department assisted with the investigation.

The case was before Judge George Fufidio in Westchester County Court, and was prosecuted by Homicide Bureau Chief Lana Hochheiser and Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Z. Marcus.

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