A 21-year-old man who was taken into custody during a car stop in the Bronx on Monday turned out to be a suspect wanted for fatally blasting a guy on Memorial Day, cops say.
Suspect Michael Rios had been sought in the deadly May 29 shooting of Clifford White, 42, police said late Tuesday.
White was found pumped with 10 bullets when the NYPD responded to a 911 call of a male shot inside a building on Boston Road near East 168th Street in the Bronx around 10:50 p.m., cops said.
He was shot in the torso and rushed to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
He lived in another building on the block.
Rios – who lived about a mile from the scene – was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
The relationship between the men, if any, and the motive for the fatal shooting remained unclear Wednesday.
Monday’s car stop involved a weapons possession case, police said. Rios was one of the occupants of the car, but it’s unclear whether he is the person targeted by the stop at the time, cops said.