Crime & Safety
Brooklyn Man Turns Himself In For South Jamaica Murder: NYPD
The East New York man was arrested on Tuesday for fatally shooting a man inside the Baisley Park Houses earlier this month, cops said.
JAMAICA, QUEENS -- A Brooklyn man turned himself in early Tuesday morning for a fatal shooting that happened less than a week ago inside South Jamaica's Baisley Park Houses, police said.
Walter Ware, 46, was arrested at around 2:45 a.m. after giving himself up to local authorities, cops said. The East New York man was charged with murder and criminal possession of a loaded firearm.
Officers responding to a 911 call of shots fired inside the Baisley Park Houses at 2 a.m. on May 16 found Raymond Rue, 41, lying motionless in the second-floor hallway of the public housing complex at 116-80 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
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Rue had suffered a gunshot wound to his head in what appeared to be a drug-related shooting, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ware was slated to be arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday, records show.
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