Pedro Cintron-Acosta of Haverstraw. 

By Ben Crnic From Daily Voice

After more than half a decade, a man has been sentenced to prison in connection with a 2020 shooting in Rockland County that left a parking lot littered with shell casings and damaged vehicles.

The incident happened in Spring Valley on Saturday, June 6, 2020, around 2:30 p.m., when officers responded to Kearsing Parkway for reports of shots fired. Spring Valley Police said they found multiple spent shell casings and several vehicles damaged throughout the lot at the time, leading to an extended investigation.  

The following day, officers searched a nearby apartment and recovered a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver. A Spring Valley resident, Garlain Francois, was charged federally for possessing that weapon, as reported by The Monsey Scoop. However, police said the handgun was not believed to be the one fired during the shooting. 

Investigators continued the search for the shooter and eventually identified a person of interest. 

Nearly five years after the shooting, on March 13, 2025, Spring Valley Police, working with the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force and the Haverstraw Police Department, took Pedro Cintron-Acosta of Haverstraw into custody. He was arraigned in Spring Valley Justice Court and remanded to the Rockland County Jail. 

Cintron-Acosta later pleaded guilty on Sept. 16, 2025, to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in Rockland County Court. 

Finally, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, he was sentenced to five years in state prison followed by five years of post-release supervision. Police said the firearm used in the shooting has been recovered.