Arrest made in fatal shooting of man in pickup truck in Yonkers

An 18-year-old Yonkers resident has been arrested in the shooting death of an acquaintance he had argued with before returning to the scene with a gun, police said.

Francisco Gordillo, 51, was shot as he sat in a pickup truck at Willow Street and Mount Carmel Place early Monday. Later in the day, Ludvin Ramos-Cervantes was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

According to police, Gordillo was in the truck with Ramos-Cervantes and others that morning when the two got into an argument. Ramos-Cervantes left but soon came back with a .45-caliber handgun, police said.

According to the felony complaint filed in Yonkers City Court, Ramos-Cervantes fired a single shot into the back of Gordillo’s head at about 4:42 am.

Police responded to reports of an injured man in a vehicle shortly before 5 a.m. First responders began life saving efforts but Gordillo was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.

Ramos-Cervantes was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail at the Westchester County jail.

“Regardless of the severity of a dispute, escalating the situation by introducing a weapon and resorting to violence is never acceptable,” Police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza said in a statement. “I commend our Detectives for their hard work, as always, in finding the facts surrounding an incident, apprehending the person accountable, and delivering them to the justice system."

It was the second homicide in the city in three days. At around 6:30 p.m. Friday, a 30-year-old Bronx man was shot at Woodbine Street and Blackford Avenue, a residential neighborhood in southeast Yonkers. That victim had not been publicly identified as of Wednesday morning and police had reported no arrests in the case.

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