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New video of Dunkin' Donuts murder

Thursday, February 09, 2006

(New York -WABC, February 9, 2006) (WABC) -- Eyewitness News spoke exclusively to an eyewitness who claims the gunman on the tape is not Otis Cain, the man police named as a suspect.

Tonight, an eyewitness to the crime backs him up and says the killer wasn't Cain. Meanwhile, cops may also be having their doubts. Cain hasn't yet been charged.

Marcus Solis is at the 32nd police precinct in Harlem with more exclusive details.

Eyewitness: "He was holding a gun, running out of Dunkin' Donuts."

She is an eyewitness who doesn't want to be identified, but says she's sure of what she saw.

On Sunday the Harlem resident says she was walking past the Dunkin' Donuts on 145th Street as a man was running out. But four days after the fatal shooting of the store manager, the question remains: who is that man?

Police have been questioning Otis Cain since early Wednesday. The witness says they have the wrong person.

Eyewitness: "He was in his 20s, he had a moustache, he didn't have a beard or soideburns or nothing like that and he was much slimmer."

Alternate versions of the surveillance video may bear that out. One shows a different camera angle of the cold blooded killing.

This is the same point of view as the police version, but it is slightly clearer. Cain's sister, who visited her brother at the 32nd Precinct Thursday, says the footage will help clear him.

Yolanda Cain, Suspect's Sister: "I'm really convinced now, more, that it's not him. It's not him."

Cain insists he was in Poughkeepsie watching the Superbowl with friends Sunday. Yesterday he surrendered to police with the help of Eyewitness News.

Following the murder of Sanjoy Kar, police identified him as their prime suspect. Throughout it all, the 43-year-old has maintained his innocence.

Otis Cain, Murder Suspect: "That's not me ... I didn't do nothing wrong ... That's not Otis Cain ... They got the wrong man ... That's not my style ... I didn't kill that man."

Eyewitness: "The reason why it's been bugging is that I see now that an innocent man could go to jail for something he did not do."

Cain is still facing charges in a series of robberies committed last October and November. In our interviews he admits to being a thief, but insists he is not a violent criminal. Sunday's eyewitness says she could spot the killer.

Eyewitness: "I could identify him. I really could. If I see him again, I really could."

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