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4 Life Terms 4 The Bronx Hitman
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CYRIL SMITH, a/k/a “Nicholas Smith,” a/k/a “Nicholas Wright,” a/k/a “Mark Nicholas Smith,” a/k/a “Zero,” was sentenced on Friday afternoon in Manhattan federal court to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment for distributing narcotics and committing three separate contract murders in the Bronx between 1998 and 2000.
SMITH, 31, was convicted on May 30, 2007, following a two-week trial before United States District Judge DENISE L. COTE. Specifically, the jury found SMITH guilty of the murder of JAMAL KITT, on July 5, 1998; the murder of TERRENCE CELESTINE, on July 30, 1998; and the murder of SANFORD Malone, on February 14, 2000. SMITH was also convicted of three counts related to his distribution of “crack” cocaine and other drugs between 1998 and
2005. According to the evidence at trial:








