Defendant: Andre Coverdale (DOB 08/12/88)
May 23, 2018 -- Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. today announced that Andre Coverdale has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison on Manslaughter in the First Degree, a class B felony, in the stabbing death of his mother, Dawne McCray of Yonkers. Coverdale has no known address.
Background
On Jan. 16, 2016, at about 12:30 p.m., the defendant walked up to a security booth at an apartment complex on Schroeder Street in Yonkers and told the security officer that “he had just killed his mother.” The defendant asked the guard to call the police.
When Yonkers Police arrived on the scene, the defendant was waiting at the guard booth. Coverdale told the officers his mother was in apartment 225 at the complex. When police officers entered the apartment, they found the victim dead in her bed. The medical examiner later said she died from multiple stab wounds.
He pleaded guilty March 15, 2018.
ADA Christine O’Connor and ADA Tim Ward prosecuted the case.
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