Man found guilty in Miya Brophy-Baermann murder case
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A Providence man was found guilty Thursday for the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Providence.
Isaiah Pinkerton, 26, was found guilty in Providence Superior Court on multiple charges including murder in the shooting death of Miya Brophy-Bearmann after a jury trial spanning over a week.
Her family rejoiced in getting justice for Brophy-Baermann after nearly two years.
Providence police said Brophy-Baermann was with a friend on Olney Street in the early hours of Aug. 1, 2021 when she was shot and killed.
Police said it was a drive-by shooting, and she was not the intended target.
Pinkerton and Shawn Mann were arrested last summer in connection to the killing of Brophy-Baermann, roughly a year later.
Brophy-Bearmann was from Warwick and had just earned her master’s degree from Northeastern University.
Miya Brophy-Baermann and her parents. (Submitted photo)
She started her first job in North Providence just weeks before she was killed.
Pinkerton will be sentenced at a later date.
A trial for Mann is slated to start later this summer.
