THE BRONX — A man accused of shooting the mother of his daughter and then murdering her mom in their Soundview apartment in 2013 was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison, the Bronx District Attorney announced Tuesday.
Raymond Mayrant, 25, shot his girlfriend, Diamond Dunn, 25, in the head while her mother, school crossing guard Elzina Brown, 59, tried to intervene. He then shot Brown at point blank range, in what was the first homicide of 2013, prosecutors said.
Mayrant fled the city and was eventually arrested in Ohio after he ran out of money and called his employer.
“I just pray one day when your daughter asks you, ‘Why did you do that? What happened?’ that you are able to be man enough to hold yourself accountable for what you have done," said Diamond’s sister, Laura Dunn, in Bronx Supreme Court during the sentencing, according to the DA's office. "For my mother is irreplaceable, as well as you [are] to your daughter."
Judge Alvin Yearwood said he could not find “something redeeming” about Mayrant before sentencing him.
“You got up on the witness stand and you lied. All of your lies floated together the way a brook floats downstream,” Yearwood said. “You have sentenced that child to a lifetime of sorrow by taking her grandmother and trying to kill her mother.”
Mayrant’s lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.
