Overview
- Taylor entered a guilty plea on July 18, 2025 to second-degree murder in the May 28, 2023 killing of his ex-wife, Tishawn Folkes-Taylor, in Schenectady County Court.
- He admitted stabbing Folkes-Taylor more than 22 times at her Pleasant Street home while her three children, including two they shared, were inside.
- Prosecutors say Taylor traveled from North Carolina after allegedly killing his current wife in Brooklyn to carry out the attack on his ex-wife out of animosity.
- Law enforcement arrested Taylor in a Philadelphia bar on June 2, 2023, then extradited him to New York to face charges in both homicides.
- He is set to be sentenced on September 16 and remains under indictment in Brooklyn for the earlier murder of his then-current wife.