Prison For Westchester Man Who Fled To Florida After Shooting

A Westchester resident who fled to Florida after a shooting in Yonkers will serve 23 years to life in prison for murder, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced.
The shooting happened on a Yonkers street just after midnight April 30, 2016, when Anthony Burton pulled out a handgun and fired three shots at Orlando Johnson.

Johnson was found semi-conscious in the street by responding Yonkers police officers.
Transported to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx by EMS, he died June 2, 2016.

Burton, aka David Burton, aka Faseoff, 38, was sentenced to the following:

• On Murder in the Second Degree, a class A felony – 23 years to life in prison
• On two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, class C violent felonies – 13 years in state prison plus 5 years’ post-release supervision on each count.

All terms will run concurrently.

For a time, he was a fugitive from justice.

Burton was discovered at the Queen Mary Inn in Pensacola, Florida, where he was arrested on local charges, including contributing to the delinquency of a minor, resisting arrest, false personation and possession of a controlled substance.

He was extradited to New York Nov. 28, 2018. He was found guilty Sept. 30, 2019, on all counts following a bench trial before Westchester County Court Judge Anne Minihan.

Before sentencing, Johnson’s family members told the court of the impact his murder has had on them and his young son. Two of the dead man's sisters spoke and Assistant District Attorney Brian Bendish read an impact statement written by Johnson’s mother, Vicki Johnson. In it, she said, she forgave Burton but believed he should be sent to prison so he “will not be able to take another life.”

Assistant District Attorneys Brian Bendish, of the Superior Court Trial Division, and Lana Hochheiser, Deputy Chief of the Homicide Bureau, prosecuted the case.