Jury Urges Execution for Killer of Secret Service Agent
A jury recommended Monday that the man convicted in the Westchester killing of the only female U.S. Secret Service agent to die in the line of duty be put to death.
Andre Stephen Alexander, 44, was convicted March 5 in the 1980 murder of Agent Julie Cross. He is serving a life prison term for killing his three partners in an unrelated case.
Cross, 26, was killed while she and her partner were investigating a counterfeiting operation in Westchester.
The pair were parked near a house, waiting to obtain a search warrant. While they sat in their car, Alexander and another man approached, apparently planning to rob the agents.
Cross was somehow disarmed in a scuffle. Alexander grabbed a shotgun in the agents’ car and fired first at Cross and then at her partner, who was wounded.
A second man involved in the shooting has never been identified.
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