Mount Vernon Man Behind 'Senseless Killing' In White Plains Gets Prison: DA

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A Westchester man will pay for a "horrible crime" behind bars, Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced today.

Nathaniel Hill, 55, of Mount Vernon, was sentenced on Thursday to 16 years in state prison for killing 40-year-old Bernard Potillo, of Yonkers, in July of 2024.

Hill pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March.

On July 4, 2024 in White Plains, Hill stabbed Potillo in the abdomen, killing him.

"This is another sad example of a senseless and tragic killing," Cacace said. "The impact of this horrible crime will be felt by the victim's friends and family forever. My hopes are that this sentencing offers the family at least some measure of solace and closure."

"Our future was taken," Potillo's girlfriend, Caprisse Hall, said in a victim's impact statement read in court. "The family we dreamed of, the businesses we wanted to build, and the life we were crafting together. All of it vanished in one devastating moment. I was supposed to become his wife. We were supposed to create a legacy together. And now, I’m left holding the pieces of a broken heart and a shattered life."