White Plains Man Guilty Of 2020 Murder

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A White Plains man was found guilty Friday of the 2020 murder of Deron Strange.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah said, after a five-week trial, a jury found Brandon Williams, 28, of White Plains, guilty of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, felonies.

Williams faces a sentence ranging from a minimum of 15 years to life to a maximum of 25 years to life in state prison when he is sentenced Dec. 5.

Prosecutors said, shortly before midnight May 27, 2020, Williams approached Strange, 35, in the parking lot of the man’s home on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in White Plains and used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot the man.

Williams then chased Strange around the parking lot and continued to shoot him a total of five times, police said, striking him twice in the abdomen and pelvis.

Strange was taken to the White Plains Hospital, where he died.

The White Plains Police Department arrested Williams in a hotel in Harrison May 29, 2020, following an investigation, with the assistance from the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force.