Mount Vernon Man Indicted Over Easter Sunday Shooting

Mount Vernon NY

14 October, 2020

2:46 PM

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MOUNT VERNON, NY — A Mount Vernon man accused of a fatal Easter Sunday shooting has been indicted. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced that Johnathan Jeanty of Mount Vernon was indicted by a Westchester County Grand Jury for the murder of Tremell Robinson in Mount Vernon in April. Prosecutors alleged that on April 12, 2020, Jeanty fired a shot from a handgun, hitting Robinson, and then fled. Robinson, 24, was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. After an investigation, Mount Vernon police located and arrested Jeanty on April 16. Jeanty, 21, appeared in court Tuesday via video conference before Judge Anne Minihan and was arraigned on: Murder in the Second Degree, a class A felony2 counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a class C felony He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 28.