Victim Was Walking Hand-In-Hand with Six-Year-Old Girl; Murder Was Part of a Cycle of Retaliatory Shootings
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for second-degree Murder in the drive-by shooting of a man walking with his young daughter in the summer of 2020.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant, who was seeking retaliation for a prior shooting, drove up to the victim in a car with several accomplices in broad daylight and opened fire. A father is dead and his six-year-old-daughter, who was just inches away from receiving the same fate, lives with the trauma. The defendant has been held accountable and will spend many years in prison.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Davon Delks, 25 of East 171st Street was sentenced today by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy to 25 years to life in prison. The defendant was found guilty by a jury on March 26, 2024, of second-degree Murder.
According to the facts presented at trial, on July 5, 2020, Delks and several accomplices were in a car following Anthony Robinson, 29, as he walked with his six-year-old daughter on East 170th Street near Sheridan Avenue, to avenge a shooting from the day before that involved Robinson’s brother. Delks fired a gun from the car, striking and killing Robinson.
District Attorney Clark thanked Detective Patrick Sullivan of the Bronx Homicide Squad, Detective Vincent Figueroa of the 44th Precinct, staff of the Video Unit of the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and the professional staff members of the Homicide Bureau.
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