UPDATE: Dec. 29, 2020
A gunman was arrested Monday and charged with the caught-on-camera (watch below) killing of 16-year-old James Solano outside a Bronx deli — even admitting to officers that he had the murder weapon on him, police said Tuesday.
Marquis Beckford, 22, was arrested by patrol officers who were responding to a call around 6 p.m. on Trinity Avenue after one of them recognized him as a suspect, police said.
When officers searched him and found a gun, Beckford admitted that it was the one he used to shoot Solano around noon Dec. 23 in front of a bodega at 1097 Boston Road, police said.
Beckford was charged with murder 2, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, New York Post reported.
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Dec. 24, 2020
NEW YORK — Stunning video footage captures the moment a teen was fatally shot outside a Bronx deli in broad daylight.
Surveillance video obtained by ABC 7 shows the suspect tapping James Solano, 16, on his shoulder outside the King Deli and Grocery on Boston Road near East 166th Street in Morrisania around 12:10 p.m. Wednesday.
The suspect then reaches into his jacket and waits for the teen to pass him before he pulls out a gun and fires at him right outside the door of the bodega.
The teen, who was shot once in the neck, ran into the deli, where he collapsed, according to police.
Solano, who lived around the corner from the scene, was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Solano and the gunman were talking moments before the shooting, though the motive for the attack was unclear Thursday morning, New York Post reported.
It also was unclear whether the two men knew each other. The shooter remains at large.
