Enlisted Undercover Cop to Kill Man to Keep Him from Testifying
Against the Son, Who Had Allegedly Shot Him in Dispute
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man and his
mother have been indicted for conspiring to kill a man to prevent him from testifying against
the son, who allegedly had shot and wounded the man during a dispute.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendants allegedly enlisted an undercover
detective who was posing as a hitman, to allegedly kill a victim who survived being shot five
times. The defendants paid $1,000 to the “hitman” as a down payment on the murder. These
defendants allegedly tried to silence a victim and subvert our criminal justice system in the
most heinous way.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Candido Lizarro, AKA Candido Lizarra, 26,
of 1010 East 170th Street, was indicted on Attempted Murder in the second degree, first-degree
Assault, two counts of second-degree Assault, third-degree Assault, first-degree Criminal Use of a
Firearm, second-degree Criminal Use of a Firearm, second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon,
Criminal Possession of a Firearm, and fourth-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon. Both Lizarro
and Annette Spann, 45, of 1010 East 170th Street, were indicted on three counts of second-degree
Conspiracy and three counts of second-degree Criminal Solicitation. Spann was arraigned today
before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary and bail was set at $150,000 bond or $50,000
cash or $150,000 bond partially secured at ten percent. Lizarro was arraigned on December 13,
2019 before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert Torres and remanded. They are due back in
court on February 19, 2020.
According to the investigation, on September 2, 2019, Lizarro allegedly shot a man
five times in the back in the lobby of a NYCHA building at 1010 East 178th Street because
of a dispute. The victim survived his wounds.
According to the investigation, Lizarro fled the state and began communicating with
the undercover detective through texts, saying things such as, “I need this done man,” and
that if it weren’t for the surviving victim “I wouldn’t be in the jam right now…”
On November 14, 2019, Lizarro made a video call to Spann and the undercover during
which Spann can be seen counting out $1,000 in 10 one-hundred-dollar bills. Spann also
described specific places the intended target frequented.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Ravi Narayan from Firearms
Investigations Unit, Detective Victor Cardona and Police Officer John Uske from Brooklyn North
Field Intelligence Unit, Detective Randy Kyrk from Bronx Warrants Squad and Detective
Andrew Nash of the 48th Precinct Detective Squad.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
