Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been 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 in a Bronx Taco Bell restaurant
District Attorney Clark said, “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. This was a senseless, vicious crime. I hope today’s sentence brings justice to the deceased man’s family and the survivors.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Edison Cruz, 28, of the Bronx, was sentenced today 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. The defendant was found guilty of those charges by a jury on July 2, 2025.
According to the facts at trial, on May 3, 2022, at approximately 12:46 a.m., Cruz was working in the Taco Bell Restaurant on Jerome Avenue in the Mount Hope section when he got into an argument with David Scott, 31, who was there with his wife. The couple left the restaurant. Cruz left and was walking on East Burnside Avenue when Scott and his wife followed him, continuing the argument in front of a bodega. Scott went into the bodega and came out with a hockey stick. Cruz pulled out a 9mm handgun and shot Scott four to six times. A man was shot in the bicep and a woman was shot in the abdomen. Both survived. Cruz put the gun in garbage bag and into a trash can and went back to work. The NYPD recovered the gun.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detectives Dominic Robinson of the Bronx Homicide Squad and Orlando Colon formerly of the 46th Precinct for their work on the case.
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