Jury Found Defendant Guilty of Attempted Murder
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a New Jersey man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for shooting a woman in the chest after she rejected his sexual advances.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant was told by the victim that she wasn’t interested in his advances. For saying no, she was grabbed, hit in the face with a gun, and shot in the chest. For the defendant’s violent and reprehensible actions, he will be heading to prison.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Kevin Hawse, 47, last of Union, New Jersey, was sentenced on June 9, 2022 to 14 years in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett. The defendant was found guilty on May 20, 2022 of Attempted Murder in the second-degree and seconddegree Criminal Possession of a Weapon after a jury trial.
According to the investigation, on March 4, 2019, in an apartment inside 4160 Hutchinson River Parkway, the victim rejected the defendant’s sexual advances. The defendant grabbed the victim by the hair to drag her out of the apartment, hit her over the head with a gun and then shot her in the chest. The bullet went through her body and into a nearby wall. The victim was treated at NYC Health + Hospitals Lincoln for injuries. Hawse was apprehended in Los Angeles, California on April 29, 2019.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Pedro Gomez of the Bronx Warrants Squad, and Police Officers Thomas Collazo, Fernando Benitez-Colon and Paula Aguero of the 45th Precinct, and Police Officer Estefani Cerda from Bronx Evidence Collection Team.
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