A Monroe County Court jury has convicted a Gates man in the fatal shooting of a co-worker inside a Wegmans warehouse last summer.
According to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, 33-year-old Kyshonn Green was found guilty of second-degree murder following a jury trial. Prosecutors said Green shot and killed fellow Wegmans employee J’Mere Ridley-Smith, 25, of Rochester, while both men were working at the company’s distribution center on Brooks Avenue in Gates.
Police said the shooting happened around 4:15 p.m. on July 26 inside the Wegmans facility on Brooks Ave. Gates Police Chief Rob Long said Ridley-Smith was loading pallets inside a cooler unit when he was shot multiple times.
Officers responding to reports of gunfire found Ridley-Smith dead at the scene. Investigators recovered multiple 9mm shell casings from inside the warehouse.
Authorities said Green fled New York after the shooting and was captured the following day in Knoxville, Tennessee by the United States Marshals Service.
Green is scheduled to be sentenced on June 30. He faces a prison sentence ranging from 15 years to 25 years to life.
