A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in the Bronx after an argument outside a pizza parlor turned into an all-out brawl, police said on Thursday.
Responding to an alert of an assault, police discovered the 28-year-old victim yesterday with a gunshot wound to the chest around 3:46 p.m. near Tillotson Ave. and Baychester Ave. in Baychester. EMS rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died.
Sources told the Daily News that the men got into an argument outside a pizzeria that quickly became physical.
“There was a guy here. He bought a slice of pizza. He went outside and he got into a fight,” a worker at the pizza place said. “They went down the block and there were shots.”
The two continued brawling down the block on Baychester Ave., where the victim pulled out a knife and the suspect opened fire, a police source said.
Cops recovered a knife at the scene, according to the source.
The gunman then fled into a nearby house, but witnesses flagged down cops and led them to the home, cops said. Police arrested the suspect, who had multiple stab wounds, according to the source.
“They grabbed him when he answered the door,” said a witness who did not want to be named. “At first he put up a struggle, just as Emergency Services got there. They dragged him out and put him in the car.”
The suspect was later taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition, police said.
Both the victim and suspect have rap sheets. The victim has been arrested six times before, most recently in January for criminal possession of a weapon, according to police records.
The suspect has two prior arrests, most recently in January for strangulation, according to records.
