Buffalo man sentenced to prison in fatal Kensington Avenue shooting

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Buffalo man has been sentenced to prison for a deadly shooting on Kensington Avenue in January 2023.

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office said Michael J. Keane announced that Jerry L. Simpson, 30, was sentenced Monday in state Supreme Court to 23 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

According to the prosecutor’s office, on January 5, 2023, Simpson shot two victims with an illegal weapon in the 900 block of Kensington Avenue, near Olympic Avenue in Buffalo. One of the victims, Jermaine Underwood, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene. The second victim, a 31-year-old man, was transported by ambulance to ECMC and was treated for his injuries before being released.

Simpson pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter in May.