Guilty plea to witness intimidation in Halloween homicide

WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Vernon man pled guilty in Westchester County Court on Monday to intimidating a victim or witness in the second degree, a felony.

Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Jason Jennings attacked the victim, who was a witness in a homicide that occurred on October 31, 2007 in Mount Vernon.

On November 5, 2007 at about 2:15 p.m., in the vicinity of Elwood and Sheridan avenues in Mount Vernon, Jennings attacked the witness. During the attack, he called the victim a “snitch” and threatened the victim saying, “This is not over,” because the victim had provided information to Mount Vernon Police about the homicide.

Jennings was arrested the next day.

Nyanda Charlie, 19, also of Mount Vernon, was indicted last November on one count of murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Neville Webb, a security guard in Mount Vernon. His trial is pending.

When Jennings is sentenced in July, he faces up to seven years in prison.