A suspect within the homicide of famed-Harlem drug supplier Albert “Alpo” Martinez has been taken into police custody and charged for the Oct. 31 deadly drive-by capturing.
Alpo was killed was using his crimson Dodge RAM 2500 truck after being shot a number of occasions via the driving force aspect of the window on or round v Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 151st Avenue in Manhattan.
In line with the Day by day Information, the police tapped Shakeem Parker, a 27-year-old satirically from the identical neighborhood as Martinez, because the alleged killer.
Parker was already locked up on Rikers Island for a unique gun case.
Via info acquired of their investigation, NYPD detectives charged him with Alpo’s homicide and prison possession of a weapon.
The kingpin, made well-known by Cam’ron’s portrayal of him within the film “Paid in Full,” drove 4 blocks earlier than crashing into a few parked automobiles throughout from the NYPD Police Service Space 6 on Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 147th Avenue.
When police discovered Alpo, reviews say that the officers discovered him struggling to breathe as he sat in his car. An post-mortem revealed he was shot six occasions in his arm, as soon as in his chest, and sustained a graze wound on the left aspect of his chin.
EMS tried to save lots of his life by taking him to NYC Well being + Hospitals Harlem however to no avail. He was gone.
The Nineteen Eighties drug supplier and staple in Hip-Hop tradition was arrested in July 1990, went to trial in 1991, and sentenced to a 35-year sentence for 14 counts of homicide.
Don Diva journal said that he was launched in 2015 after being incarcerated on the ADX Florence federal supermax jail in Fremont County, Colorado.
The now-deceased federal informant, who turned on his good friend Wealthy Porter within the early 90s, was 55 years previous when he died.
An NYPD spokesperson mentioned, “Detectives gathered info that he was the shooter.”
No particulars as to why Parker killed Alpo have been launched.
