Shoplifter Who Fatally Stabbed Shop Owner Gets 21 Years

YONKERS, NY — A Yonkers shoplifter will go to prison for the stabbing death of a shopkeeper in April, 2021.

Tyrese Shubrick was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the killing of 47-year-old store owner Ruben Martinez Campos, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced on Thursday.

"Today, we have ensured a violent individual, who ruthlessly took the life of a man trying to protect his business and livelihood, is off our streets," Rocah said in a statement announcing the sentencing. "Our thoughts are with Mr. Campos’s family and the Yonkers community."

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Shubrick pleaded guilty earlier this year, on April 19, to felony manslaughter in the first degree. He was also sentenced to five years of post-release supervision.

On April 20, 2021, at approximately 5:40 p.m., Shubrick threatened Martinez Campos with a knife at his store on Main Street in Yonkers before taking a hat. When confronted by the store owner outside of the shop, Shubrick used the knife to stab Martinez Campos twice in the chest.

The shopkeeper's wife witnessed the stabbing, which was also captured on surveillance video.

Martinez Campos was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he died.

The Yonkers Police Department identified, located and arrested Shubrick a day later, on April 21, at Elmsford Village Court, where he was appearing on an unrelated case. The knife was never recovered.

"You senselessly took my love’s life without any reason in front of me," Martinez Campos’s wife said in a statement read in court. "This has been a nightmare from which I have not been able to wake up from.... He didn’t deserve what you did to him."

Shubrick was also sentenced to two years in prison, which will run concurrently to his 21-year prison sentence, for a separate stabbing.