Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Monday, Oct. 20, that a Bronx man was sentenced to 22 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter and other charges for fatally shooting a man and wounding two bystanders after an argument that began inside a Bronx Taco Bell restaurant in the Mt. Hope section of The Bronx.
“The defendant fired four to six shots at the victim and he was killed in front of his wife, and two innocent bystanders were wounded,” the district attorney said. “This was a senseless, vicious crime. I hope today’s sentence brings justice to the deceased man’s family and the survivors.”
Clark said the defendant, Edison Cruz, 28, of The Bronx, was sentenced on Monday to 22 years in prison and five years post release supervision for first-degree manslaughter, first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Rosenblueth. She said he was found guilty of those charges by a jury on July 2…