WHITE PLAINS, NY — Tyquan Carcamo, 20, and Laquan Jones, 21, both of New Rochelle, were indicted for the shooting death of 20-year-old Aaliyah Waiters.
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Carcamo and Jones, were both indicted by a Westchester County Grand Jury for Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon, both felonies. The defendants were arraigned on November 12, 2021, and are currently being held without bail.
The pair face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
The shooting took place on September 25, 2021, in Mount Vernon. Waiters, a Mount Vernon resident, was transported to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, where she died several days later.
Mount Vernon Police arrested Carcamo and Jones on October 25, 2021, following a joint investigation with the Westchester Department of Public Safety, New Rochelle Police Department, and FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, as part of the Gun and Gang Initiative, launched by the District Attorney’s Office in August.
The case is before Judge Robert Neary in Westchester County Court, and is being prosecuted by the Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau.
In 2018, Tyquan Carcamo, then 17, was a student at New Rochelle High School when he was arrested by New Rochelle Police and charged with Disorderly Conduct, a violation following a report of an “altercation involving youths” in the vicinity of 542 North Avenue, across the street from City Hall. The incident occurred at 3:32 p.m. near North Avenue and Horton Avenue.
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Black lives matter to me of it does matter to other people
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Its almost as though blacks lives don’t matter to other blacks.
Where is the sense of outrage in the black community? A precious young life was brutally taken away form us. Rachel Motley, Mark McLean, Ron Williams, Dr. Carla H. Woolbright — we need to hear your voices. Your silence is compliance with violence.