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Syracuse man guilty in poker-game shooting after jury hears from 4 dead witnesses Updated 11:10 AM; Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse man will head back to prison for a possible life sentence after a jury found him guilty again of a 2015 shooting at a high-stakes poker game. Charquan Edwards, now 29, shot an 83-year-old man while fleeing the Tallman Street residence with $9,000 in wagers laid out on a table, prosecutor Lauren Phelps told the jury. The victim, George Smith, has since died of unrelated causes, as did three other witnesses present that night. A fifth witness was hospitalized during la...

Man found guilty in poker-game shooting after jury hears from 4 dead witnesses Updated 11:26 AM; Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse man will head back to prison for a possible life sentence after a jury found him guilty again of a 2015 shooting at a high-stakes poker game. Charquan Edwards, now 29, shot an 83-year-old man while fleeing the Tallman Street residence with $9,000 in wagers laid out on a table, prosecutor Lauren Phelps told the jury. The victim, George Smith, has since died of unrelated causes, as did three other witnesses present that night. A fifth witness was hospitalized during last ...

Jury hears from 4 dead people in high-stakes poker game shooting in Syracuse Updated 3:15 PM; Syracuse, NY -- It’s not often that a criminal jury gets to hear sworn testimony from dead people. But the Onondaga County jury in the case of Charquan Edwards heard from four dead witnesses and another who is hospitalized this week during an attempted murder trial. Edwards, 29, was granted a new trial after procedural errors led his 2015 attempted murder conviction to be thrown out by an appellate court. In the six years since, the victim of the attempted murder, George Smith, has died of unrelat...

DeWitt man in dramatic standoff across from Wegmans pursuing mental-illness defense Updated Apr 15, 2021; Facebook Share Instead, Jonathan Almonte, 33, agreed to put his fate into the hands of defense experts who are looking into his mental health. Almonte started a police standoff on Nov. 14, 2020 above the Hair Shed salon, 6840 E. Genesee St., after threatening a neighbor with a machete, police said. During the three-hour ordeal, Almonte tried to set fire to the building (where he lived), threw items out a window and later confronted officers with the machete outside, according to police r...

Gardaí investigating the deaths of three brothers near Mitchelstown, Co Cork earlier this week have confirmed postmortem examinations have concluded.The results will not be released for operational reasons and a number of scenes...