Eighteen years to life for street killing

WHITE PLAINS – A 19-year-old Mount Vernon man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years to life in prison on his guilty plea on a charge of murder in the second degree.

Robert Lewis and a co-defendant, Enric Devers, Jr., also 19, of New Rochelle, shot and killed Reginald Rogers as he walked on 4th Street in Mount Vernon on April 24, 2007.

The two perpetrators are members of the Bloods street gang and when they saw Rogers around 9 p.m., they walked across the street to him. Lewis shot Rogers five times, striking him in the shoulder, back and left thigh. As the victim lay wounded on the sidewalk, Devers shot him in the head. The shooters then fled the scene.

On May 19, while walking with two women in the vicinity of his residence in Mount Vernon, police arrested Lewis. Police said he had in his possession one of the handguns used in the shooting.

Devers, who was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree will be sentenced in July.