AYANA EVANS - 9 yo(2010) - Mount Vernon NY

New York - Mount Vernon NY police arrested a man without incident
after shooting and killing his 9-year-old daughter and the child's
babysitter. Police were called to the home by the child's mother who
had been arguing with the man on the telephone earlier.
When police arrived they heard a banging sound like a screen door
when the man, Darrell Evans, 50, walked out and surrendered to police.


Inside, police found the body of the child and babysitter, Lorna
Williams, 42, in separate rooms on the second floor of the home. The
mother, a nurse, arrived shortly after police.
Mount Vernon police chief Barbara Duncan said the mother had called
police shortly after 10:30pm, saying she had been arguing with her
husband and the phone and wanted police to check on her daughter.
Chief Duncan told local media that police where unclear whether
Evans had shot his daughter and the babysitter before or after arguing
with his wife. Details of Evans' relationship with his wife were also
unclear as to whether the couple was living together at the time. No
further details were released.
Evans faces two counts of second degree murder over the shootings.

A man shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter and her baby sitter at
the girl's suburban home in New York before walking out the front door
and surrendering to officers, the police chief said Friday.


Mount Vernon police Chief Barbara Duncan said that the girl's
mother, a registered nurse, was at work when she called police at about
10:36 p.m. on Thursday to ask them to go to their house because she had
been having an argument with her husband on the phone.


The nature of the argument was not disclosed.


As police officers arrived at the house, they heard a banging sound
like a screen door being closed at the back of the house, and the
woman's husband walked out and surrendered, the police chief said.


Inside the home, officers found the child and the 42-year-old woman
in separate rooms on the second floor, Duncan said. The child,
identified as Ayana Evans, had been shot in the torso; the baby sitter,
Lorna Williams of Florida, was shot in the side of the head.


It was unclear whether the two victims had been shot before the
girl's mother, identified as Joan Whitfield, 47, argued with her
husband over the phone and called police, Duncan said.


Whitfield is an active member of a branch of the military who
recently served in the Middle East. She recently moved with her
daughter to Mount Vernon. It's unclear whether her husband, Darrell
Evans, was living with them. His last known residence was Brooklyn.


Evans, 50, was expected to be arraigned on two counts of second-degree murder on Friday, the police chief said.


A handgun was recovered at the house and was submitted for analyses to determine whether it was used in the slayings.


The police chief said the mother arrived shortly after calling
police and after her daughter had been taken to a Mount Vernon
Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Duncan said the sitter was
dead at the scene.


Duncan said were investigating whether there was an order of
protection against Evans. Police did not know of any divorce or
separation proceedings underway.


Mount Vernon Mayor Clinton Young said that the slayings happened on
his street, a tree-lined upper-middle-class neighborhood of neat
private homes about 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan.


"My entire neighborhood is in shock," he said. "I remember seeing
this little girl riding her bicycle and walking to school with her
friends."


Of the girl's mother, he said, "She lost her child. It was an extremely emotional situation last evening."


Tobie Tripodi, who lives across the street and down a couple houses
from where Thursday's shootings happened, said that she was awakened
last night by the police activity. She said the girl and her family had
recently moved in and "seemed like a quiet family."


She said she had waved to the child on her way to school.


"I'm horrified by it," Tripodi said of the killing. "A child? Come on. The most innocent among us."

A father confessed to killing his 9-year-old daughter and her baby-sitter when cops arrived at a Mount Vernon home turned slaughterhouse, witnesses said."'Yes, I killed them all,'" Darrell Evans said, a neighbor recalled Friday. "'F---, I killed them all.'"The
Mount Vernon police chief would not confirm Evans had implicated
himself, but she said he surrendered without a fight after Thursday's
slayings."He walked right out," Chief Barbara Duncan said.Evans, 50, was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder.His wife, Joan Whitfield, 47, was left to bury her daughter, Ayana Evans, and mourn the baby-sitter, 42-year-old Lorna Williams."My entire neighborhood is in shock," said Mount Vernon Mayor Clinton Young Jr., who lives down the street. "I ... recall seeing this little girl riding her bicycle."Duncan said the killing was preceded by a telephone argument Evans had with Whitfield, who was at her Bellevue Hospital nursing job.Whitfield, who also is an active member of the military and had just returned from duty in the Middle East, sensed her daughter was in danger and called cops at 10:36 p.m. Thursday, officials said.When
cops arrived, Evans was waiting for them. On the second floor, they
found Ayana, who was shot in the torso, barely breathing. She was
rushed to Mount Vernon Hospital, where she died.In another room, cops found Williams. She had a bullet in her head and was pronounced dead at the scene.Police later recovered a small-caliber handgun, but Duncan said it was too early to tell if it was the murder weapon.

40 Yrs for Man Who Killed Daughter, Babysitter

Updated 1:15 PM EDT, Tue, Mar 22, 2011



A man who shot and killed his
9-year-old daughter and her babysitter and then walked out the front
door of his Mount Vernon, N.Y. home and surrendered to police was
sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison.

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Darrell Evans was sentenced to two consecutive 20-year terms for the January 2010 killing.

Prosecutors said Evans and
his wife were arguing over the phone when he told her he was going to
kill the babysitter and their daughter. The wife then called Mount Vernon police to alert them to the threats.

When police responded, Evans emerged from the house and admitted to committing "murder" inside.

Police then found the babysitter, Lorna Williams, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. The child was found in her bed with multiple gunshot wounds. She died at the hospital.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/40-Yrs-for-Man-Who-Killed-Daughter-Babysitter-118441619.html