The suspect who fatally shot an harmless straphanger on a Manhattan prepare handed off the gun to a homeless man — who then offered the homicide weapon to a 3rd individual, police sources stated.
Shortly after the unidentified gunman blasted 48-year-old David Enriquez within the chest Sunday — with out provocation — he fled the prepare at Canal Avenue and went up the steps, the place he randomly handed the gun to a 46-year-old vagrant, the sources stated.
Investigators discovered surveillance footage displaying the suspect giving the gun to the person, the sources stated.
That man was taken into custody and charged with felony possession of a loaded firearm, the sources stated.
Additional investigation revealed that the homeless man held onto the gun for about eight hours earlier than promoting it to a 3rd man for $10 and a bag of cocaine, in response to the sources.
The person who purchased the gun approached a detective on scene and stated he had the weapon, however he was not arrested, in response to the sources.
He “made it clear” that neither he nor the vendor had been liable for the taking pictures, the sources stated. The connection between the 2 males, if any, isn't identified.
Enriquez, who lived in Park Slope and had labored for Goldman Sachs for 9 years as an funding researcher, was on his technique to brunch when he was killed, his sister, Griselda Vile, stated Sunday.
“I want you guys would return to Mayor [Eric] Adams and inform him town isn't protected,” she added. “My brother simply grew to become a statistic on the best way to town. He was shot at shut vary.”
In an early Monday tweet, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell recognized the suspect within the slaying as a person proven in surveillance photographs carrying a darkish jacket, white masks and light-colored pants.
“We'd like all eyes on this,” Sewell wrote. “@NYPDDetectives want your assist figuring out & finding this man who is needed for murder within the tragic, mindless taking pictures of a person on a ‘Q’ prepare that was approaching the Canal/Centre St. station on Sunday.”
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