WHITE PLAINS – A Peekskill man was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison for the 2022 stabbing murder of his stepfather and setting fire to his mother’s apartment on the same day.
Shane Gilleo, 32, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for murdering his stepfather, Edward Reeves and five to 15 years for arson. That term will run consecutively.
It was alleged that at about 12:30 a.m. on September 14, 2022, Gilleo stabbed the 48-year-old victim seven times in the arm, abdomen, thigh and chest with a knife in a parking lot outside his grandmother’s Peekskill apartment on North James Street.
He then fled the scene.
Reeves was rushed to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla where he died from his injuries.
District Attorney Miriam Rocah said Gilleo murdered in cold blood and then lit his own mother’s home on fire. “Today’s sentence holds this defendant fully accountable for his violent and deadly actions.”
During the investigation the knife used was recovered. He then set three separate fires inside the apartment before punching out the windows and jumping out a second story window.
The apartment was rendered uninhabitable.
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