SCHENECTADY — A man who pleaded guilty in February to killing his live-in girlfriend now wants to withdraw that admission because of a purported jailhouse confession that instead allegedly implicated another man being held in a different murder case, according to the man’s defense attorney Mark Sacco.
Sacco is representing Bernard Alexander, who was scheduled Monday to be sentenced to 25 years to life for the shooting death of Philomen “Toy-Toy” Henry in the city’s Mont Pleasant neighborhood in May 2023.
“Someone came forward in the jail that there’s been an admission in the murder of Philomen Henry and that person’s alias is ‘Ice,’” Sacco said Monday after the court proceeding, adding that “the alias of ‘Ice’” has been associated with a person who is also incarcerated related to another killing. The Times Union is not naming the suspect because it could not be independently confirmed Monday…