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Albany teen convicted of killing 10-year-old girl
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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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.
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— 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.


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