A teenage fugitive was caught Thursday days after a broad-daylight capturing that killed an harmless, walker-using 69-year-old grandmother, regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
The 18-year-old suspect was picked up by the feds and the NYPD in connection to the 12:25 p.m. Aug. 27 capturing of Robin Wright – who was struck within the face and killed by a straw bullet at East a hundred and tenth Avenue and Madison Avenue, the sources mentioned.
The teenager was nabbed when Homeland Safety Investigations, the NYPD’s Violent Gang Process Pressure and the US Marshals Regional Fugitive Process Pressure closed in on him in connection to the mindless violence – which sources mentioned stemmed from a botched weed theft.
“I simply stood proper there and watched my pal whereas she died,” Juanita Arnold, a pal who was with Wright when she was fatally struck, beforehand informed The Publish on the scene. “As a result of she wished lunch and couldn’t make it again?
“This was not essential. That woman ought to’ve by no means died like that.”
Wright usually took walks as train to assist together with her restoration after a latest surgical procedure on the veins in her legs, in response to her associates and neighbors.
“She was on the lookout for [her] grandson to stroll together with her, to go get lunch,” Arnold mentioned. “She wished some train. She was rehabilitating herself and getting power again in her legs so I requested what she wished to do.
“I’ll stroll with you to go get your lunch. And that’s what we did. She by no means made it again however I did.”
Wright’s neighbor, Sonya Hampton, mentioned she was with the ailing sufferer on the bottom as she took her final breath.
“I used to be simply coming from the shop and I heard the gunshots,” Hampton mentioned. “I circled to see the place the bullets landed and he or she was on the ground.”
The gunfire erupted a short while after the teenager shooter and one other still-at-large menace tried to rob a person a block away from the scene, regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
The duo ran off, however the sufferer chased and fired after them, in response to the sources.
When the pair returned fireplace at their armed sufferer, they inadvertently struck Wright, the sources mentioned.
The gravely wounded Wright was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside by EMS, however she couldn’t be saved, cops mentioned.
The teenager gunman’s arrest got here a day after 5 younger suspects – all however one in all them teenagers – had been charged with homicide in a Labor Day drive-by capturing that killed a person and injured 4 others outdoors a identified weed spot within the Bronx, cops and sources mentioned.
“We’re seeing shooters changing into youthful and youthful,” Mayor Eric Adams mentioned on FOX 5’s Good Day New York Wednesday morning. “We’re seeing the direct outcomes of a few of the legal guidelines that we’ve got handed – a few of the actions, each in Albany and within the Metropolis Council.”
