A teenage fugitive was caught Thursday days after a broad-daylight capturing that killed an harmless, walker-using 69-year-old grandmother, legislation 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 one hundred and tenth Road and Madison Avenue, the sources mentioned.
The teenager was nabbed when Homeland Safety Investigations, the NYPD’s Violent Gang Process Power and the US Marshals Regional Fugitive Process Power 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 good friend whereas she died,” Juanita Arnold, a good friend who was with Wright when she was fatally struck, beforehand instructed The Put up on the scene. “As a result of she needed lunch and couldn’t make it again?
“This was not vital. That woman ought to’ve by no means died like that.”
Wright typically took walks as train to assist along with her restoration after a latest surgical procedure on the veins in her legs, in keeping with her pals and neighbors.
“She was in search of [her] grandson to stroll along with her, to go get lunch,” Arnold mentioned. “She needed some train. She was rehabilitating herself and getting energy again in her legs so I requested what she needed 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, legislation enforcement sources mentioned.
The duo ran off, however the sufferer chased and fired after them, in keeping with the sources.
When the pair returned hearth 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 certainly one of them teenagers – have been charged with homicide in a Labor Day drive-by capturing that killed a person and injured 4 others outdoors a recognized 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 number of the legal guidelines that we’ve got handed – a number of the actions, each in Albany and within the Metropolis Council.”
