SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty in Schenectady County Court on Wednesday to the second-degree murder of his ex-wife in May 2023. The Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office said Timothy Taylor, 38, agreed to a 22-year sentence in his guilty plea.
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The DA’s office said Taylor admitted to killing Tishawn Folkes-Taylor at her home on Pleasant Street on May 28, 2023. Inside the house at the time of Folkes-Taylor’s death were three children, two of them Taylor’s.
According to the DA’s Office, Taylor traveled from South Carolina to Schenectady on May 27, checking into the Imperial Hotel on State Street around 11 p.m. In the early morning on May 28, he entered the Pleasant Street home and stabbed Folkes-Taylor to death before leaving through a bedroom window, discarding his clothes as he walked into downtown Schenectady.
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Officials with the DA’s office said the couple was married for 10 years, and there were multiple domestic violence incidents. Taylor was also facing three pending charges in Schenectady County Court for criminal obstruction of breathing, criminal contempt, and harassment involving the victim at the time of her being murdered.
Taylor took a taxi back to the hotel, gathered his items, and took the taxi to the Albany bus station. At the same time as the murder in Schenectady, the Brooklyn Homicide Squad was searching for Taylor, as he was a suspect in the stabbing death of his current wife on May 13, 2023. An additional indictment in Brooklyn is pending, charging him with the murder of that woman, the Schenectady DA’s Office said.
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Taylor was found by police in a Philadelphia bar on June 2, 2023, and arrested. The DA’s office said NYPD Detective Liam Crowley and Schenectady Police Department retired investigator Chris North interviewed Taylor after his arrest about the murders…