Sinclair
MOUNT VERNON – A 26-year-old Mount Vernon man is in custody in
that city in connection with a July 3 early afternoon shooting of a city
man walking on South 4th Avenue.
Within a day of the shooting the police department identified Jamall Sinclair
as the suspected shooter, said Mayor Ernest Davis. “We’ve
spent nearly three weeks trying to locate him and we finally got him when
he reported to the parole office.”
Sinclair was charged on Wednesday with criminal use of a firearm and reckless
endangerment, both as felonies.
“Getting someone off of the street who is brazen enough to shoot
on a busy avenue was priority,” said Deputy Police Commissioner
Richard Burke. “We got him before anyone else could have gotten
hurt.”
Sinclair has a prior arrest for criminal possession of a weapon and spend
nearly three years in prison on that charge.
