MOUNT VERNON – A 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,” Davis said
Sinclair, 26, was charged on Wednesday with criminal use of a firearm and reckless endangerment, both as felonies. He has a prior arrest for criminal possession of a weapon and spent nearly three years in prison on that charge.
“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.”
