Nickoles Rodríguez, a 24-year-old man, was arrested by the New York police and charged as a suspect in the brutal homicide on a street in the Bronx of another Hispanic, Pedro Rodríguez (51).
The NYPD had been slow to identify the victim of the robbery that took place on June 25 and that he was hospitalized for several days without waking up, until he died On July 2. Although the detainee and the victim have the same surname, no link has been established, and Rodríguez is also a very common Latin surname.
Police responded around 6:15 a.m. June 25 to a call of an apparent robbery in progress on West 230th Street near Heath Avenue, in the vecindario Kingsbridge Heights. Upon arrival, officers found the unidentified man lying on the ground, unconscious, with a head trauma and without papers.
He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on July 2. The exact cause of his official death has not been announced by the city medical examiner’s office.
Although only one suspect has been arrested, the cameras captured three men getting out of a maroon Kia Optima, New Jersey license plate #D19-NWB, and walking toward the area where the victim was standing.
A short time later, the same men got back into the car and drove away. The vehicle was last seen on West 207 Street in Manhattan earlier that day. The investigation is still open, he noted. New York Post. Anyone with information should call. at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, at the end of May Víctor Vega, a 61-year-old man, died five days after falling after receiving a violent punch while walking on a Brooklyn street near his home. NYPD video captured two suspects in that dramatic attack.
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