A man already serving decades for killing his girlfriend in Pennsylvania has now been indicted in New York for fatally shooting his lifelong friend — crimes that tie him to investigations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, prosecutors announced on Friday, Sept. 26.
Gerald Neal, 50, of Bushkill, was indicted for Murder in the Second Degree and weapons charges in the 2019 killing of his childhood friend, Terrance Mitchell, 40. Mitchell’s body was discovered on May 30, 2019, in a wooded section of Wyandanch, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said. He had been shot multiple times.
Days earlier, Neal murdered his girlfriend, 41-year-old Jeanette Sancho, in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County. Sancho was found partially clothed and shot in the head, left face down in woods on Lower Lake View Drive on June 1, 2019. Neal later pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in state prison earlier this year, Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso said…