{"id":259347,"date":"2025-09-27T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259347\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:10:19","slug":"pa-man-convicted-in-girlfriends-murder-indicted-in-ny-for-killing-lifelong-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259347\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. man convicted in girlfriend\u2019s murder indicted in NY for killing lifelong friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> and disposing of the body on Long Island.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mitchell, who prosecutors describe as \u201ca lifelong friend of Neal\u2019s,\u201d 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\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

An autopsy later concluded that Mitchell had been shot multiple times, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney\u2019s Office. Medical examiners recovered a .22-caliber bullet from the victim\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Neal was arrested by the NYPD on June 5 of that year while driving in Queens. While searching his vehicle, officers allegedly found blood stains in the vehicle, a .22-caliber pistol in the back seat and a spent .22 casing on the driver\u2019s side floor.<\/p>\n

Two days after Mitchell\u2019s body was found on Long Island, a homeowner in Monroe County, Pa., discovered the body of Neal\u2019s girlfriend, Jeanette Sancho<\/a>, in a small patch of woods in Middle Smithfield Township, about 80 miles west of New York City.<\/p>\n

Sancho, a 41-year-old mother of two<\/a>, \u201cwas found face down and partially naked,\u201d according to Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso.<\/p>\n

Sancho died from a single gunshot to the temple, and a .22-caliber bullet was recovered during the autopsy, Mancuso said.<\/p>\n

Neal, who at the time was scheduled to begin a prison term for a drug trafficking charge in Virginia, had not surrendered and went on the run, officials said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Neal pleaded guilty to third-degree murder for the death of Sancho and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he was arraigned in Suffolk County Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Mitchell, prosecutors said Friday. He pleaded not guilty<\/a>, according to online court records.<\/p>\n

Neal was ordered held without bail and is due back in court on Oct. 21. He faces 25 years to life if convicted on the top charge.<\/p>\n

In addition to his Pennsylvania sentence and the New York indictment, Neal still awaits a 20-year prison term for the drug trafficking case in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man already serving decades in prison for killing his girlfriend in 2019 has been indicted in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,136112,133904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,136111,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-259347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gerald-neal","10":"tag-longtime-friend","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-terrance-mitchell","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115277609211231405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}