A KILLER LOVER
She gets 24 yrs. in burn, shoot slay
A twisted girlfriend who enlisted her own children to cover up her lover’s horrific murder in Queens was sentenced on Wednesday to 24 years behind bars for the crime.
Dawn McIntosh, 51, fatally shot boyfriend Shron McWhorter in her car in 2015, right after the two had “intimate relations,” then called her adult daughter and teenage son to help her get rid of his half-naked body.
When she realized McWhorter was too heavy to move, she burned his corpse.
“This was a brutal crime and it did not end with the killing of Mr. McWhorter,” said Judg
Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant. “It was one of her children who ultimately became the primary complaining witness in this case.”
He sentenced her to 24 years in the first in-person sentencings in Queens Supreme Court since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Four members of McWhorter’s family, including his mother, watched as McIntosh was led into the courtroom.
McIntosh pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in December.
McIntosh killed McWhorter, 43, outside a home on 12th St. in Astoria during an argument over his suspected infidelity.
After calling her children to help her, she lit McWhorter ablaze, realizing he was too heavy to drag into a waiting Jeep.
She stashed the gun, washed her clothes and moved her doomed beau’s car, then told police she wasn’t with McWhorter when he died.
Investigators saw through her story after cops found one of her fake fingernails on his body, and a detective noticed she was missing a nail.
“Ms. McIntosh acted on Aug. 29, 2015, in a way that was violent, selfish and overall senseless,” Assistant District Attorney Andrea Medina said.
After she was found out, she dragged investigators along on a wild goose chase to find the murder weapon, Medina said. She claimed she tossed it somewhere on the Belt Parkway, and took several rides with detectives to find it, but she had kept it all along, Medina said.
McIntosh’s lawyer, Michael Anastasiou, said she was physically and psychologically abused growing up, and “something occurred … that ultimately triggered something in Ms. McIntosh’s mental state that caused this horrible crime.”
In a statement to the court, McIntosh begged McWhorter’s family for forgiveness and described the killing as a result of “things [that] took place that were really out of my control.”
“I was broken, I was a broken woman. A lot of things happened that led up to that night that can’t be explained in a couple of minutes. If I’d reached out for help maybe it would have been something different, but I didn’t and I made a horrible mistake,” she said.
“I want the family to understand that I’m a good person.”
The victim’s kin shook their heads as she spoke.
McWhorter survived cancer in February 2015, only to die at McIntosh’s hand, the victim’s mother, Barbara McWhorter, said.
“For the last five years I’ve been living in hell. I’ve been sick, I’ve had to sleep with a machine at night because it took five years to bring this case to a close,” she said, her voice trembling.
She also accused McIntosh of sending her an email that said, “Nobody will have him, I will take his freedom away.”
McIntosh called out that she never wrote the email, only to be admonished by the judge.
“The suffering that you caused my son to shoot him twice, not once, but twice, and then you wanna burn him? And you want me to forgive you? That’s asking too much,” Barbara McWhorter said.