[ noun ] a professional killer who uses a gun <noun.person>
Separate juries deciding the fates of Mondello and accused triggerman Joseph Fama, both 19, did not reach a verdict Wednesday. They resumed deliberations today in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The trial of 21-year-old David McClary, identified by Scott and Cobb as the triggerman, was postponed a day until Thursday after his lawyer filed an appeal that it be moved.
Frank Bancroft, suspected of being the triggerman during a weekend jailbreak that freed brothers Sonny and Frank Caston, gave up without a fight after he was spotted Monday in a stolen boat, said Dale Rinicker, sheriff of East Carroll Parish.
Fama was accused of being the triggerman, while Mondello was said to have organized the mob out of fear that a young woman had invited her black and Hispanic friends into the neighborhood for a rumble.
"The triggerman has also been identified.
Owens sentenced Joseph Fama, named by prosecutors as the triggerman, to 32 and two-thirds years to life in prison.
Co-Editor Jesus Blancornelas has charged repeatedly in the newspaper that although Vera may have been the triggerman, as authorities believe, investigators still must seek the "intellectual author" of the crime.
The alleged triggerman, John Wayne Hearn, is serving life terms in Florida for other killings.
A 20-year-old gang member believed to be the triggerman was arrested Sunday.
Walton denied he killed Powell, swearing that a co-defendant was the triggerman.
"It was a very difficult case," said Assistant District Attorney Paul Burns. "It's always hard to convict someone who is not the triggerman." The trial judge, Justice Thaddeus Owens of Brooklyn's state Supreme Court, agreed.
Garcia said the evidence shows the triggerman was Juan Rafael Moro Avila, a playboy from a prominent family of Mexican politicians.
Most recently, columnist Hector Felix Miranda of the outspoken weekly Zeta in the northwestern border city of Tijuana was fatally shot April 20. Police believe the man arrested May 1 may have been a triggerman acting for others.
At the end of murder trials for five of the eightdefendants, the district attorney's office in the borough of Brooklyn has won only one murder conviction - that of triggerman Joseph Fama.