Jury Found Defendant Guilty of Second-Degree Murder
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced
to 25 years to life in prison for killing his girlfriend.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant viciously stabbed his girlfriend of two years more
than a dozen times with an ice pick. The defendant had attacked her with an ice pick a year before
the fatal incident. A jury convicted him of second-degree Murder and he has received many years in
prison, sending a clear message that Domestic Violence will not be tolerated in the Bronx.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Brandi Simmons, 46, of 2444 Devoe Terrace, was
sentenced today to 25 years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Judith Lieb. A jury
found the defendant guilty of second-degree Murder on October 31, 2019.
According to the investigation, at about 3 p.m. on February 19, 2015 at 20 West 190th Street,
the defendant stabbed Delores Scott, 52, his girlfriend, 13 times with an ice pick. Video surveillance
shows the defendant hiding the murder weapon near a window. The mortally wounded victim was
able to identify the defendant to responding NYPD Police Officers and told them Simmons had
stabbed her. The defendant lied to cops that two other men had stabbed her and that they had attacked
him too.
Two wounds, one in the heart and another in the lung, contributed to the victim’s death. She
was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital the following day.
