Mosseta Timmons, mother of Jermayne Timmons, comforts family members after her son was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 10-year-old Kathina Thomas.
ALBANY An Albany teen has been convicted of shooting a 10-year-old girl to death on a city street last year.
An Albany County jury found 16-year-old Jermayne Timmons guilty this afternoon of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the death of Kathina Thomas.
Thomas was hit by a stray bullet while playing outside her home May 29.
Timmons took the stand and admitted he fired a gun on the street, but claimed he didn’t fire the fatal shot. He said he was with a group of boys when he fired at another group down the street and he was using a gun with a caliber different from the stray bullet that killed the girl.