18-YEAR-OLD MAN INDICTED ON CHARGES OF MURDER AND ILLEGAL WEAPON POSSESSION IN THE DEATH OF A 92-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT WHILE SITTING IN HER OWN HOME
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a grand jury has indicted 18-year-old Jamal Blair for murder in the shooting death of 92-year-old Sadie Mitchell. Mitchell was struck and killed in her own home while an altercation was taking place on the street outside allegedly involving Blair and other youths.
The grand jury charged Blair, of 855 East 233rd Street, the Bronx, with one count of Murder in the 2nd degree, one count of Manslaughter in the 2nd degree and one count each of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 2nd and 3rd degrees. Blair is facing a maximum sentence of up to 25 years to life imprisonment if convicted of the most serious offense, Murder in the 2nd degree. The defendant is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on Friday, November 13, 2009 in State Supreme Court, Part 60.
The fatal shooting occurred on October 20, 2009 on East 224th Street when a bullet crashed through a window at the victim’s house a block away from the location where the shot was fired. The grand jury alleges that Blair had acted “in a manner evincing a depraved indifference to human life.”
The case is being prosecuted by Christiana Stover of the Gangs / Major Case Bureau.
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