NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 49-year-old man was sentenced to 40 year to life for fatally shooting a Bronx bodega clerk and wounding the storeowner in 2021, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced Wednesday.
Tykwan McLeod was also sentenced to five years post-release supervision after he was convicted of murder, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
According to investigators, at approximately 8:40 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2021, McLeod entered K's Convenient Deli at 8 East Mount Eden Ave. in Mount Eden and immediately shot the store clerk, Donte Thomas, 33, in the face, killing him instantly. As Thomas fell, McLeod shot him twice.
When McLeod attempted to flee, the bodega's owner grabbed him and McLeod shot him in the chest at point blank range, prosecutors said.
The owner and another employee wrestled the gun away from McLeod, and an off-duty NYPD Auxiliary Officer recovered the firearm from the ground, according to court records.
"The defendant killed a bodega worker in a completely unprovoked act. He then shot the owner of the deli, who along with another employee subdued the defendant before he could harm others," D.A. Clark said,
