A Pennsylvania man already serving decades in prison for killing his girlfriend in 2019 has been indicted in New York for murder after allegedly shooting a longtime friend and disposing of the body on Long Island.
Gerald Neal, 50, was arrested in Queens in June 2019, just days after 40-year-old Terrance Mitchell was allegedly seen entering the passenger side of a Honda associated with Neal in Brooklyn.
Mitchell, who prosecutors describe as “a lifelong friend of Neal’s,” was found dead by a sanitation worker in a wooded section of Spruce Lane in Wyandanch, on May 30, 2019. Authorities said he appeared to be wearing the same clothing as when he was seen getting into Neal’s vehicle.
An autopsy later concluded that Mitchell had been shot multiple times, according to the Suffolk County Dis