Taylor pleaded guilty to murder in Gabriel Mosca's Poughkeepsie shooting and received 20 years to life

A guilty plea and a sentence entered the same day are the judgment on the counts he admitted. They are not an open trial. Judge Jessica Segal sentenced Anthony Taylor to 20 years to life for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Gabriel Mosca, and the two weapon terms of three and a half years run concurrently with that sentence.

The Daily Freeman, citing Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi, reported that Taylor pleaded guilty Monday in Dutchess County Court and that Judge Jessica Segal sentenced him the same day. The murder count drew 20 years to life. She also imposed two concurrent three-and-a-half-year prison terms, one on each count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Daily Voice reported that the sentences run concurrently. The weapon terms do not add years on top of the murder sentence. A plea and sentence are the judgment on the counts he admitted.

The district attorney's office said the shooting was about 5:20 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, near Main and Garden streets in the City of Poughkeepsie, and that Taylor admitted shooting Mosca, possessing a loaded firearm, and possessing that firearm outside his home or place of business. Daily Voice reported that the plea included admissions that he intentionally killed Mosca by shooting him and that he possessed the loaded pistol with intent to use it unlawfully. Daily Voice reported that Poughkeepsie police found Mosca, a 22-year-old Hyde Park resident, with multiple gunshot wounds and that he died at MidHudson Regional Hospital. Those admissions are what he told the court. They are the basis of the judgment.

Daily Voice reported that Taylor was 18 at the time, that he was arrested in Maryland on Oct. 16, 2025, after a search that included the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service, and that he was later returned to New York and indicted. The Daily Freeman reported that the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department investigated the case and that Senior Trial Assistant District Attorney Joseph Gruner and Unit Chief Pamela Bloomfield prosecuted it. In a press release the paper quoted Monday, Parisi called the shooting a daylight killing at rush hour on a city street, said Taylor armed himself and intentionally killed Mosca where other people could have been hurt, and said the plea and sentence hold him accountable. A district attorney's statement describes the judgment the court entered. It does not replace it. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.