Cops have arrested a 62-year-old man they said gunned down his wife during a brazen, broad-daylight shooting in Queens last month.
Members of the NYPD Fugitive Task Force along with U.S. marshals found Audwin Caines on W. 142nd St. in Harlem on Tuesday and cuffed him for the June 23 murder of Chaneil Ramsay.
Cops had been looking for Caines since the killing, when he was spotted opening fire on Ramsay, 45, as he chased after her down 127th Ave. near 176th St. in South Jamaica.
“He chased her shooting,” a witness to the 2:30 p.m. attack told the Daily News at the time. “There were like eight or nine shots. He hit her in the head.”
Ramsay was shot in the head, arm and stomach, cops said. Her wig was found on the ground near her body, horrified witnesses said.
EMS rushed her to Jamaica Hospital, where she died a short time later.
Caines narrowly missed also shooting a 21-year-old woman as he opened fire on his wife, cops said. Moments before the gunfire, he bashed the window to her Jeep Grand Cherokee with a rock, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
Ramsay lived in South Jamaica, less than five blocks from where she was fatally shot.
“She was a nurse who lived with her mother and young son,” one neighbor said of Ramsay. “She was a nice lady — I can’t believe it.”
Cops had repeatedly responded to Ramsay’s home in the past to stop fights between Caines and Ramsay. When questioned, Ramsay’s daughter identified Caines as her mother’s killer, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
Caines had been on the run since the killing. When he was taken into custody, he was listed as homeless.
Detectives charged him with murder, weapons possession and reckless endangerment.
His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Wednesday.
