Cops busted a teen who argued with a Bronx Dunkin’ Donuts buyer moments earlier than he was shot useless final month, authorities mentioned.
Santiana Rodriguez, 18, was arrested Monday and charged with homicide for her function within the broad-daylight March 18 slaying of Jamaican immigrant Stephaun Stewart, 24, exterior the espresso store on Holland Avenue close to East 212th Road, cops mentioned.
Police couldn't verify Tuesday morning who pulled the set off.
Authorities confirmed that Stewart and a buddy obtained into an argument with Rodriguez after she minimize the road, cops mentioned.
“She tells them to again off as a result of they in all probability have COVID,” a police supply mentioned.
The sufferer and his buddy then left the store, however the lady adopted them out, the supply mentioned.
The lady will be seen on surveillance video making a name.
She then met up with a person believed to be between 17 and 25 years previous and had one other confrontation with Stewart, police mentioned. Police sources mentioned the person was her boyfriend.
Throughout that conflict, the person and lady “talked about one thing about getting a gun” earlier than the person went right into a constructing, based on the supply.
Stewart and his buddy then cut up up and went in numerous instructions. Police consider Stewart was shot to dying someday after that.
The sufferer, who arrived within the US in December 2021, was blasted within the torso and rushed to Jamaica Medical Heart, the place he was pronounced useless.
Stewart’s aunt, who didn't give her title, mentioned he was all the time “the one to hold the peace.”
“Many of the household is devastated. He’s simply that individual,” she mentioned. “I don’t know why someone would do that to him, over a easy subject. That didn’t name for someone shedding life.”
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