25-to-Life for Yonkers Man in 2013 Murder

A Yonkers man will serve 25 years to life in prison for murdering Victor Fitzgerald.

Pedro Delacruz, 26, was sentenced Tuesday after his April 20, 2016, conviction by a jury of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty said.

Around 12:37 p.m., July 21, 2013, Yonkers police received multiple calls of gunshots behind 80 Riverdale Ave.

There were also reports of a man down in the parking lot behind the building.

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Officers found Fitzgerald lying there unresponsive, and he was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

An investigation found Delacruz had approached Fitzgerald, with whom he had been involved in a long-running dispute, on a walkway between 80 and 100 Riverdale Ave. and shot him twice, striking him in the chest and lower back.

Fitzgerald died of internal injuries and massive bleeding.

Delacruz was remanded to the custody of the New York State Corrections Department.