ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The man accused of stabbing a Rochester singer to death in her apartment in September is due in court on Monday morning.
Tyrone James is charged with second-degree murder and is due for further proceedings in Monroe County Court. He has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 63-year-old Myrtle Watson.
By the time police learned about the stabbing, Watson had been dead for hours in her home on Sixth Street. Investigators eventually identified James as a suspect, who they said knew Watson. They also said James has 49 prior criminal convictions, five of which are felonies…