White Plains Man Receives 25 Years To Life For Murder

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A White Plains man will be going to prison for the 2020 murder of Deron Strange.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah said that Brandon Williams, 28, of White Plains, was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in state prison.

On Oct. 14, after a five-week trial, a Westchester County Court jury found Williams guilty of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, all felonies.

Prosecutors said, shortly before midnight May 27, 2020, Williams shot Strange, 35, multiple times with a semi-automatic handgun as he was chased around the parking lot of Strange’s residence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in White Plains.

Williams fired five shots, striking Strange once in the abdomen and once in the pelvis.

Strange was taken to White Plains Hospital where he died.

The White Plains Police Department arrested Williams at a hotel in Harrison May 29, 2020, following an investigation, with assistance from the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force.