Crystal
03-02-2005, 04:55 PM
27-year-old Schenectady resident is accused of shooting Frank White in Hamilton Hill
SCHENECTADY -- More than five years after Frank White was fatally shot in the forehead in front of a Hamilton Hill convenience store, police say they have found his killer.
The arrest followed a month of intensive work on the case, said Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney, but authorities declined to elaborate on the leads pointing to White's alleged killer, 27-year-old Tysone Pinn.
Pinn, of 1223 Second Ave., was arrested in the city Monday afternoon and charged with second-degree murder, said Lt. Peter Frisoni, a Police Department spokesman. He was sent to Schenectady County Jail without bail.
On Dec. 2, 1999, in broad daylight, White, 33, was shot at the corner of Craig and Lincoln streets. There was no arrest in the slaying, and the case faded from the headlines after a police officer was shot and wounded in the same neighborhood a week later.
Carney said not all of the evidence against Pinn is new. Police have been reinterviewing witnesses and slowly building a solid case, Carney said.
"There's plenty of evidence to go to the grand jury with," he said.
Pinn's whereabouts in the years since the killing were not entirely clear late Monday, but records from the Department of Correctional Services show he did about eight months of a 30-month sentence in state prison in 2002 for a low-level felony drug conviction.
"I think that they knew where he was, because he was on parole," Carney said.
Newspaper archives also indicate Pinn was mistakenly implicated in the shooting of a cabdriver in 2000 in Providence, R.I.
Despite his son's prior brushes with police, Pinn's father said Monday he doesn't think his son is capable of murder.
"I find it hard to believe," Edward Pinn said. "He's had his run-ins, but I don't think he's capable of something like this."
The arrest came less than a week after a similar incident in which three men were shot in front of a convenience store at Craig and Emmett streets.
Nonetheless, Emanuel Adams, who was head of the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood Association at the time of the White murder, said things are getting better. "We're doing a lot better than we were in '99," Adams said.
SCHENECTADY -- More than five years after Frank White was fatally shot in the forehead in front of a Hamilton Hill convenience store, police say they have found his killer.
The arrest followed a month of intensive work on the case, said Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney, but authorities declined to elaborate on the leads pointing to White's alleged killer, 27-year-old Tysone Pinn.
Pinn, of 1223 Second Ave., was arrested in the city Monday afternoon and charged with second-degree murder, said Lt. Peter Frisoni, a Police Department spokesman. He was sent to Schenectady County Jail without bail.
On Dec. 2, 1999, in broad daylight, White, 33, was shot at the corner of Craig and Lincoln streets. There was no arrest in the slaying, and the case faded from the headlines after a police officer was shot and wounded in the same neighborhood a week later.
Carney said not all of the evidence against Pinn is new. Police have been reinterviewing witnesses and slowly building a solid case, Carney said.
"There's plenty of evidence to go to the grand jury with," he said.
Pinn's whereabouts in the years since the killing were not entirely clear late Monday, but records from the Department of Correctional Services show he did about eight months of a 30-month sentence in state prison in 2002 for a low-level felony drug conviction.
"I think that they knew where he was, because he was on parole," Carney said.
Newspaper archives also indicate Pinn was mistakenly implicated in the shooting of a cabdriver in 2000 in Providence, R.I.
Despite his son's prior brushes with police, Pinn's father said Monday he doesn't think his son is capable of murder.
"I find it hard to believe," Edward Pinn said. "He's had his run-ins, but I don't think he's capable of something like this."
The arrest came less than a week after a similar incident in which three men were shot in front of a convenience store at Craig and Emmett streets.
Nonetheless, Emanuel Adams, who was head of the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood Association at the time of the White murder, said things are getting better. "We're doing a lot better than we were in '99," Adams said.