Man Found Guilty for 2021 Murder of Miya Brophy Baermann on East Side of Providence

Man Found Guilty for 2021 Murder of Miya Brophy Baermann on East Side of Providence

In August of 2021, then-24-year-old Warwick native Miya Brophy-Baermann was shot and killed on Olney Street on the East Side of Providence. 

On Thursday, one of the suspects — Isiah Pinkerton — was found guilty. 

According to Brophy-Baermann’s LinkedIn page, she had just received her Master’s Degree in Speech and Language Pathology — with a 3.94 GPA— from Northeastern University.  She received her undergraduate degree from URI in 2019. 

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Brophy-Baermann had also recently held a number of internships and fellowships prior to graduating, including working as a student clinician at Northeastern, East Taunton Elementary School, as well as at Encompass Rehabilitation Hospital in Braintree and at Reliant Rehabilitation in North Providence.

 

Multiple Charges

The indictment in 2022 had charged Pinkerton with one count of murder; one count of conspiracy to commit murder; one count of discharge of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, resulting in death; one count of committing a drive-by shooting; one count of conspiracy to commit a drive-by shooting; two counts of possession of a ghost gun; two counts of conspiracy to possess a ghost gun; two counts of carrying a pistol without a license; two counts of conspiracy to carry a pistol without a license; two counts of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person; one count of assault with intent to commit murder; and one count of discharge of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.