Sex Offender Charged in Homicide Outside Rochester's Transit Center

A Rochester man with a long criminal record has been charged with murder in the city's latest homicide.

Forty-four-year-old Jamel Robinson is charged with yesterday's shooting death of 38-year-old Kevin Rigdon outside the downtown transit center.

Police say the men knew each other, but the motive isn't known.

A second man was wounded by gunfire and is still hospitalized.

Robinson was arrested a short time later, leaving the Sibley building, and carrying a loaded handgun.

Police say his record includes a criminal sex act conviction, he is a sex offender and was discharged from lifetime parole last year.


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