Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Monday, Oct. 27, that a Bronx man has been charged with second-degree murder and related charges in the fatal shooting of a 57-year-old man who was using a walker at the time he was shot and the wounding of a 34-year-old woman after the man fired at a group of men in the Fordham Heights section of The Bronx in May of this year, as reported.

 

“This defendant allegedly shot at a group of young men and missed his intended targets,” Clark said. “A man was killed, and a woman was shot in this brazen attack while walking down the street.”

The district attorney said the defendant, Brandon Sullivan, 18, from the West Farms section of The Bronx, was arraigned on Monday on second-degree murder, attempted murder in the second degree, first-degree manslaughter, attempted assault in the first degree, second-degree assault, and two counts of second-degree possession of a weapon before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Gayle Roberts. The court heard that he remains in custody and is due back in court in February 2026.

According to the investigation, and as reported at the time, on May 18, at around 6.45 p.m., on East 188^th Street near Webster Avenue, Sullivan allegedly fired a 9mm handgun at a group of young men, striking two innocent bystanders.

 

Kevin Jennings, 57, who was walking with the aid of a walker, was shot in the head and a 34-year-old woman was shot in the leg. Both were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital. Jennings later died. Sullivan was arrested on Sept. 17, as reported.

The case is being prosecuted by Homicide Assistant Patrick Kenny of the homicide bureau under the supervision of Burim Namani, deputy chief of the homicide bureau, Christine Scaccia, chief of the homicide bureau, and under the overall supervision of James Brennan, deputy chief of the trial division, and Theresa Gottlieb, chief of the trial division.

Clark thanked Anwar Torres and Kimberly Cameron, trial preparation assistants with the homicide bureau, for their work on the case. She also thanked NYPD Detective Kyle Keiser of the Bronx homicide squad and Detective Richard Garcia of the 46^th Precinct for their work on the case.

 

Sullivan is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.