Mark McDonald, 43, waited six years to be tried in the January 2011 fatal shooting of Angasha Sharras, 29. That six-year wait for his trial led an Appellate Division panel to overturn his conviction, saying that the Bronx District Attorney’s Office had “no good cause” to violate McDonald’s right to a speedy trial.
Eileen Hernandez and her two autistic sons are stuck in their Bronx apartment with their peeling lead paint, lights that don’t turn on, water that doesn’t run and boxes she started packing for a trip to nowhere.