The road-raging, gangbanger who allegedly stabbed a Bronx dad to death was arrested Thursday, cops said – leaving the victim’s grieving family calling for the alleged killer to be locked up.
Clement Boateng, 36 – who lives down the block from the scene of the July 2 murder of Ronald Gomez-Mesa, 29 – was picked up around 10 a.m. by the NYPD’s Warrants Squad and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
“We’re relieved they found the killer but we want justice,” Gomez-Mesa’s sister, Ronaysi Gomez, 25, told The Post in an exclusive phone interview. “We don’t want him out of prison. He can’t be let out. A killer can’t be out on the street or he could kill again.”
Boateng — who is affiliated with the River Park Towers gang — has four prior arrests, the most recent of which is from Sept. 22, 2016 for charges including criminal possession of a weapon, cops and sources said.
His latest bust for the road-rage slaying came just a day after loved ones buried Gomez-Mesa in his native Dominican Republic, “his second home,” Ronaysi said.
“It was hard laying Ronald to rest,” Ronaysi said of her brother, whose daughter, Rosalia, turns 3 next week. “We still don’t believe he’s gone. No one can believe it, not his friends or family.”
“My mom is still devastated. This is hard for her. Ronald was the child who looked most like her. They were practically twins.”
The broad-daylight violence erupted after a man and a woman got in a small car accident outside Jason Deli and Grocery on West Tremont Avenue and Phelan Place, according to law enforcement sources.
The woman phoned a male friend, who showed up at the scene and randomly began attacking witnesses after someone threw something at him.
The thrower took off on a moped, according to surveillance video. The irate attacker lunged at two men sitting nearby — including Gomez-Mesa.
Gomez-Mesa defended himself, throwing punches and chasing the maniac down the street, according to the video and his sister.
But he couldn’t ward off Boateng, who stabbed him in the chest in front of a day care center on Phelan Place, cops said.
Medics rushed Gomez-Mesa – who lives about a half-mile from the scene – to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
Gomez-Mesa, who was one of seven kids, moved to the US when he was 16, according to his sister.
He carved out a life in Morris Heights, where he lived with his parents, Ronaysi and her children.
Just a week ago, Gomez-Mesa passed his TLC driver’s license test – an accomplishment he had hoped would help him provide for Rosalia, Ronaysi said.