Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man was sentenced to 15 years in prison and five years post-release supervision after pleading guilty to attempted murder in the second degree for shooting two people inside a Wakefield home in The Bronx, leaving his ex-girlfriend paralyzed.

 

“The defendant’s ex-girlfriend was at home babysitting five children when a man arrived to pick up his daughter,” Clark said. “The defendant went inside and shot both his ex-girlfriend and the man. A 9-year-old girl courageously called police after witnessing the attack.”

 

Clark said the defendant, Marlon Edwards, 49, was sentenced on Feb. 18, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Joseph McCormack, adding that Edwards pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second degree on Dec. 18, 2024.

 

According to the investigation, on July 2, 2021, at around 11 p.m., at a home near Barnes Avenue and East 223^rd Street in Wakefield, Edwards was observing the home of his 49-year-old ex-girlfriend, who was babysitting five children ages 1-11 years old.

 

One of the kid’s parents, a 44-year-old man, arrived for pick-up. After seeing the father enter the home, Edwards forced his way inside the apartment, and in a jealous rage, shot his ex-girlfriend in the chest. He also shot the father in the shoulder, who attempted to wrestle away the gun. Police and emergency personnel responded and took both victims to nearby hospitals after a 9-year-old called 911. The woman suffered life altering injuries including paralysis.

 

Edwards fled to Florida where he was arrested for another incident, before getting extradited to New York in September 2022.

 

Bronx DA officials said the case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Sharlene Disla, supervisor in the Domestic Violence Bureau, under the supervision of Jenna Rizzo, deputy chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, Simon Folkard, deputy chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, Agata DiGiovanni, chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Adrienne Giunta, deputy chief of Special Victims Division, and Joseph Muroff, chief of Special Victims Division.

 

Clark thanked General Advocate Supervisor Thalia Liriano of the Crime Victims Assistance Bureau for her work on the case, along with NYPD Detectives Robert Regnier of the 47^th Precinct Detective Squad, Felix Arana of the Bronx Warrants Squad, NYPD Police Officers David Canasgaviria and Erick Landaverde of the 47^th Precinct, and former NYPD Police Officers Travis Gembecki and Kegham Jarjokian.