A person with a number of arrests to his title had homicide added to the checklist Saturday after Nassau County police charged him for allegedly capturing a New Cassel man lifeless on New 12 months’s Day.
Stephen Primm, 34, was charged with second-degree homicide and prison possession of a weapon, police stated.
Primm shot Joseph Fountain, 40, 4 occasions with a 9 mm handgun at about 2:05 a.m. Thursday after an argument exterior a Railroad Avenue house, Nassau County police Detective Lieutenant Commander George Darienzo stated at a briefing Sunday morning.
“There was an argument that took place outside that premise in which our defendant interjected himself, intervened and shot our victim,” Darienzo stated.
“It’s very scary,” two different neighbors informed the station of what might have been New York State’s first 2026 murder.
Regardless of lifesaving measures by first responders, Fountain was pronounced lifeless at a hospital a short while later, Darienzo stated, noting that witnesses had led investigators to Primm.
Primm pleaded not responsible in Nassau District Courtroom on Sunday and was being held with out bail pending one other court docket look Wednesday, in keeping with court docket data.
