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closeYORK — York authorities are trying to determine how a pair of sandals and a white sport utility vehicle factor into the shooting death of 63-year-old Ernest Tyron Tolbert.
The York sanitation worker was shot Sept. 28 as he prepared to clean a Blackburn Street coin laundry. Before the shooting, a woman drove by the laundry and noticed a white SUV and a man, police said.
“She said she waved to Ernest and kept on going,” York Police Detective Billy Mumaw said. “Ernest waved back.”
The woman also noticed a black man who wore a white T-shirt and blue jeans, he said. Police also know Tolbert moved a trash bin to the front of the laundry and put cleaning supplies on a table before he was shot.
“He was shot inside towards the back door and staggered out the front,” Mumaw said about Tolbert, who collapsed in front of the laundry. “We believe the triggerman went out the back door.”
About 15 yards from the laundry, police recovered a pair of sandals.
“The bottoms were wet, and the tops were dry,” Mumaw said of the sandals. “We don’t know if the shoes belong to the murderer or if they belong to a witness who walked up and took off because he got scared.”
Anyone with information should call the York Police Department at 684-4141 or CrimeStoppers at York County at 1-877-409-4321.
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