PROVIDENCE, R.I.(WPRI) — The Providence man convicted of killing a 24-year-old woman in a drive-by shooting nearly three years ago will spend the rest of his life behind bars, according to R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha.
Isaiah Pinkerton, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder earlier this year for the August 2021 shooting death of Miya Brophy-Baermann.
Brophy-Baermann was gunned down while standing next to her parked car on Olney Street with her boyfriend.
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It took more than a year for detectives to track down Pinkerton and his suspected accomplice, Shawn Mann. Prosecutors said it was a routine traffic stop that broke the case open, when officers found a ghost gun wrapped in a bandana near where the suspects were pulled over.
Pinkerton’s DNA was found on the ghost gun, which was eventually connected to Brophy-Baermann’s murder. Both Pinkerton and Mann were taken into custody nearly a month later.