Third suspect arraigned in 2022 killing
The Beacon Police Department announced on Nov. 22 that it had made an arrest in the May 2022 killing of Lionel Pittman Jr. in a Forrestal Heights parking lot.
Zyree Downing, 24, of Middletown, Delaware, who is incarcerated in a Pennsylvania prison, was brought by officers to Beacon to be arraigned on a first-degree murder charge in Pittman’s death. He was then sent to the Dutchess County jail.
Police earlier this year arrested Naije Perrette and Khyree Pratt in the case. They said there are no further suspects.
Pittman, 32, was shot and killed on May 14, 2022, at the Forrestal Heights complex on West Center Street. Officers responded at 6:50 p.m. to a report of shots fired.
