Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Shooting at Town & Country Apartments

A Binghamton man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in connection with the death of a person who was hit by a stray bullet at a city apartment complex.

Police have announced that 19-year-old Darius Palmer entered a guilty plea to a count of first-degree manslaughter in Broome County Court on Wednesday.

The charge was brought in the shooting death of 41-year-old Tyrell Norris, who was wounded on September 30 while in his residence at Town & Country Apartments.

Norris sustained a gunshot wound to his head around 10:15 on that Monday night last fall. He died a short time later.

Binghamton police officers outside Building 2 at Town & Country Apartments on October 1, 2024. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

Binghamton detectives determined Palmer was a suspect in the shooting. He was arrested October 30 in the Bronx by members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force. He had been wanted on a warrant in an unrelated case that was being investigated by Johnson City police.

After pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of Norris, Palmer was sentenced to 20 years in state prison.

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