Two Arrested Over NYC Murder of Rockland Man

by CrownHeights.info

Two men have so far been arrested in the murder of 20-year-old Spring Valley Jefferson Hernandez.

Joan Vasquez, 32, of the Bronx and Manuel Reyes, 23, were both arrested by the NYPD this week in the ongoing investigation.

As previously reported by Monsey.info, the incident took place in the Bronx at East 144th and Exterior streets in Mott Haven Wednesday afternoon around 3:40pm, after Jefferson Jimenez Hernandez and three other men drove down to make the purchase of a Kawasaki bike being sold on the Facebook Marketplace. Something went wrong with the sale and Hernandez was shot.

EMS rushed Hernandez to Lincoln Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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