| Bronx
Cab Driver
Shot 7 or 9
Times
Testified In
Robbery Trial
Now Mario
Powell Found
Guilty
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 17 –
Back in March
2018 then US
Attorney
Geoffrey
Berman
announced that
"on March 17,
2018, Mario
Powell called
a livery cab
in the Bronx
then
threatened the
driver with a
gun and
demanded
cash.
The driver
handed over
$23 in
cash.
Powell exited
the cab and
then shot the
driver seven
times."
On May 16,
2023, Powell
was on trial
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Paul A.
Engelmayer.
Inner City
Press was
there and
covered
it.
The
driver Jeffrey
Cisnero
Camacho, who
survived, was
on the witness
stand. He said
he had been
shot nine
times, and
still has two
bullets in his
leg. He said
the two police
officers who
helped him,
Jennifer and
Sean, were
"angels." He
cried.
In
the courtroom
gallery, his
relatives
including one
of his
daughters
listened. On
the other
side,
apparently
family members
of the
defendant.
On
May 17, on the
stand was
Mario Powell's
brother in
law, who
identified him
to police. In
the courtroom
gallery, ten
supporters of
Powell, who
barely looked
at the
exhibits on
the screen. No
sign of the
victim
(understandable),
nor of his
family. On
cross
examination
the brother in
law
acknowledged
he was only
linking the
person in the
surveillnance
video footage
to Mario
Powell, not
directly to
the shooting.
On
May 18 in
closing
arguments the
AUSA listed 11
reasons to
conclude Mario
Powell was the
robber and
shooter,
coming again
and again to
the bright
blue Air
Jordans with
the orange
Gatorade tag.
There were
PowerPoint
problems. The
defense
emphasized, No
gun, No DNA,
No prints.
After 5
pm, the
pre-sentence
investigation
report was
ordered up.
Docketed on
May 19: "JURY
VERDICT as to
Mario Powell
(1) Guilty on
Count 1s,2s."
More
detail, from
Endless
Sentences, on
Substack here
The
case is
US v. Powell,
18-cr-287
(Engelmayer)
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