WHITE PLAINS – A Yonkers man has been indicted for the 2021 New Year’s Eve murder of a man in White Plains.
Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace said that Shawn McLaurin, 43, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the 2021 murder of 49-year-old Shawn Jefferson in White Plains.
On December 31, 2021, minutes before midnight, it is alleged that, following a physical fight with Jefferson on Ferris Avenue in White Plains, McLaurin shot him six times in the chest and torso with a 9 mm firearm while the victim was seated in the driver’s seat of his vehicle outside his home near North Kensico Avenue.
After the victim got out of his car and onto the ground, McLaurin allegedly fired a seventh shot and fled the scene.
White Plains Police found the victim who was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:29 a.m. on January 1, 2022.
McLaurin was arrested on July 12, 2026 following an intensive investigation.
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