'Guilty': Jury Convicts Yonkers Man Of Murder For 2020 Shooting

YONKERS, NY — After a four-week trial, a jury has found a Yonkers man guilty of murdering 23-year-old Lateef Butler outside a Yonkers apartment building in 2020, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced on Wednesday.

The chilling murder was caught on surveillance video.

The jury convicted Terrence Gonzalez of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. The 30-year-old now faces a sentence ranging from a minimum of 15 years to life to a maximum of 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced on February 16.

On June 26, 2020, just after 6 p.m., Gonzalez used a .38 caliber revolver to shoot the victim five times, striking him in the neck, chest, hip and thigh, during a dispute outside the apartment building where they both lived on Nepperhan Ave. in Yonkers. The victim was rushed to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, where he was pronounced dead.

Following the incident, the Yonkers Police Department arrested Gonzalez in the Saw Mill River, by Stefanik Park in Yonkers, after he fled the shooting scene and led police on a foot chase. During the pursuit, police recovered the gun used to murder Butler under a bush near Center Street.