'Selfless' Woman, 24, Was Mysteriously Killed in 2021 While Saying Bye to Friend - and 2 Niggers Were Just Charged

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Two Rhode Island men have been charged with murder more than a
year after the death of a 24-year-old woman who was shot while
saying goodbye to a friend after a night out.

On Friday, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced the
indictments of Shawn Mann, 31, and Isaiah Pinkerton, 25, of
Providence, in connection with the drive-by shooting death of
Miya Brophy-Baerman, of Warwick, on Aug. 1, 2021.

The promising young University of Rhode Island graduate had just
started a job as a speech pathologist shortly after earning a
Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Northeastern
University in May 2021 when she was fatally shot.

On the night she was killed, Brophy-Baerman had gone out with
friends and was saying goodbye to one of them on Olney Street in
Providence at 3:30 a.m. when she was struck by shots fired from
a car that raced by, police said at the time, The Providence
Journal reports.

The two men allegedly shot at two people during a drive-by
shooting on Olney Street, the Attorney General said in a news
release. Police don't believe Brophy-Baerman was a target, The
Providence Journal reports.

"For over a year, this Office and the Providence Police
Department have sought justice for Miya and her family, and with
today's indictment, we are one step closer towards achieving
that goal," Attorney General Neronha said in the statement.

On August 24, 2022, the Statewide Grand Jury returned a secret
indictment charging Mann with a slew of charges including one
count of 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 and one count of possession of
a ghost gun, the release says.

The indictment charges Pinkerton with a host of crimes including
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; and two counts of possession of a ghost gun.

The indictment also charges the defendants with multiple charges
related to the alleged possession of a Polymner80 ghost gun — a
gun without a serial number that is difficult to trace, which
can be assembled by the user — on December 12, 2021.

At a hearing on August 26, 2022, the secret indictment was
unsealed and the suspects were arraigned in Providence County
Superior Court.

Both men pleaded not guilty and are being held without bail.

It is unclear whether they have retained attorneys who can speak
on their behalf.

Brophy-Baermann's family and friends are still mourning the loss
of the woman who "accomplished so much and impacted so many in
her short yet passionate life," according to her obituary.

After graduating from high school in 2015, Miya attended
Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for a year "before
making the difficult, financially responsible decision to
transfer back to her home state's public university, University
of Rhode Island," the obituary reads.

"Maintaining multiple jobs while attending URI, she graduated
magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Communication
Sciences and Disorders in 2019," it says.

After earning her Master's Degree in speech language pathology,
she started her first job as a clinician a few weeks before she
was killed.

"Miya was a selfless person who will be remembered for her
infectious and optimistic personality," the obituary says. "She
made complete strangers feel welcomed and treated everyone
equally and as a friend."

Her family set up a GoFundMe to establish a memorial scholarship
in Brophy-Baermann's honor called Miya's Voice.

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