BRONX WOMAN IS SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER OF 6-YEAR-OLD SON AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF DAUGHTER, 2

Defendant Used Razor to Cut Their Throats; Left Bleeding Children on Street 

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx woman has been sentenced to a total of 30 years to Life in prison for slashing her two-year-old daughter and sixyear-old son with a razor. The boy died weeks later from his injuries. 

District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant committed an inexplicable act of cruelty and callousness against her own children, slashing them and leaving them on a streetcorner to die. A little boy is dead, and his sister survived the brutality but still suffers the effects.” 

 District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Shanice Martin, 24, formerly of Seward Avenue, was sentenced today by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching to 20 years to life in prison for second-degree Murder and 10 years in prison with 5 years post release supervision for attempted murder in the second degree, the sentences to run consecutively. The defendant was found guilty by a jury on May 24, 2024.

According to the evidence at trial, on the evening of April 27, 2019, at the corner of Brook Avenue and Washington Avenue, the defendant struggled with her son Tyzavier Martin, 6, and then cut his throat with a razor, leaving him with a deep laceration. She then turned to her toddler daughter and cut her throat and her side. Martin walked away from the scene and left the children lying on the sidewalk, bleeding profusely. The children were treated at local area hospitals and released. But on June 14, 2019, the boy collapsed at his school and died. It was determined that he died due to complications from the injury he received from his mother.

District Attorney Clark thanked Police Officers in NYPD Housing Police Service Area 7, the 42nd Precinct, the Evidence Collection Unit and the Bronx Child Abuse Squad for their work in the investigation and trial, specifically former PSA 7 Police Officer John Liska, Police Officer Jonathan Martinez, Detective Stephen Kendrick and Sergeant Joseph Walsh, former 42nd Precinct Police Officer John Paulino and Police Officer Hector Rodriguez and Detective Timothy Hoffman of the Bronx Child Abuse Squad.