WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Tuesday to 20 years to life in state prison for killing his girlfriend’s former boyfriend.

A jury found Dameon Bodie, 31, guilty of felony murder in the second-degree.

On September 2, 2011 at about 11:15 p.m., in the vicinity of Franklin Avenue and Madison Street in Mount Vernon, Bodie began to fight. The confrontation progressed a half block down when he slashed the victim, Richard Reid, several times on his neck area, resulting in his death. He was the father of the woman’s baby.

A neighbor called 911 and Bodie’s girlfriend tried to stop Reid’s bleeding.

Bodie fled the scene and was taken to the hospital by another person for treatment of injuries he sustained. New Rochelle Police were called to the hospital after Bodie, who gave a false name initially, claimed he was the victim of a robbery. Police later learned of the homicide and began an investigation, which led to Bodie’s arrest.