A teenage boy was arrested Thursday for the fatal shooting of a woman in her apartment building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side – marking the second time this week a teen has been arrested in connection with deadly gun violence.
Police said the 16-year-old was one of two alleged thieves who followed Ying Zhu Liu’s husband into his building on Market and Madison Streets at around 11 p.m. on Sept. 9th.
Officials said the suspects rode the elevator with the man up to the building’s eighth floor, where they tried to rob him. When Liu, 57, came into the hallway to intervene, one of the suspects fatally shot her, police said, then fled with her husband’s cell phone.
The 16-year-old arrested Thursday was charged with murder in the second degree, robbery, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon. Police said he was taken into custody at 7:30 a.m. in the 5th precinct, which includes the Two Bridges neighborhood where the incident happened.
His name was not released because he is a minor, and information for his lawyer was not immediately available. The other suspect in the incident has not yet been arrested.
Earlier this week, police arrested a 15-year-old boy for fatally shooting 66-year-old William Alcindor in Queens. According to the Queens District Attorney’s office, the teen had been firing at a “gang” rival in a Popeyes parking lot. He missed, and the bullets struck Alcindor as he drove by the scene.
The 15-year-old was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night, and a judge ordered him to remain in custody as the case proceeds, according to the DA’s office.
His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
Teens have been arrested in 12 out of 147 fatal shooting incidents throughout the city so far this year, according to police data compiled by Gothamist. Last year, 15 teens were arrested in connection with fatal shootings, out of a total of 223 incidents.
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