DeWitt police have announced a fifth arrest in the Chili’s robbery double homicide that occurred in last week.
On the night of Tuesday, Sept. 19, DeWitt Police arrested Jerome C. Pinkard, 29, of Syracuse, and charged him with criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree.
Pinkard is accused of supplying Tracy Brown with a gun, who in turn gave it to William Wood Jr. to commit the Chili’s robbery, and subsequently the double homicide.
Pinkard is being held pending arraignment.
This is the fourth arrest in two days connected to the Chili’s case announced by DeWitt police.
On Sept. 18, police arrested Ronald B. Green, 47; Tracy L. Brown, 53; and Ryan J. Brown, 30, all from the City of Syracuse, for their alleged connections to the case and to the alleged shooter, William Wood Jr.
According to police, Wood is alleged to have robbed the Chili’s Restaurant 3691 Erie Blvd E, in the Town of DeWitt at approximately 1:04 a.m. on Sept. 15 and killed two employees during the incident. Two other employees working that night escaped with their lives, although police state that Wood allegedly intended to kill all four employees that night but his gun may have jammed.
Wood fled the scene and was on the run for 24 hours. He was arrested in Fulton at an address he frequented, according to police.
According to police, Green was the getaway driver and appears to have driven Wood to Fulton and is being charged with two counts of murder in the second degree and one count of endangering the welfare of a child because he had his 2 year old child in the car at the time of this incident.
Green is currently being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center and is awaiting arraignment.
Tracy Brown is being charged with two counts murder in the second degree and provided the gun to Wood in agreement to receive money from the robbery.
Brown is currently being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center and is awaiting arraignment.
Ryan Brown is being charged with one count of hindering prosecution in the second degree and was in the car when it traveled to Fulton with Wood. He also was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree for possessing eight bindles of heroin when he was located.
Brown is currently being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center and is awaiting arraignment.
