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Penn Station Shooter Wanted to Be Drug Kingpin at McDonalds: Sources

By Murray Weiss | November 13, 2015 2:38pm | Updated on November 15, 2015 8:32pm
 Police beefed up presence at McDonalds' at 490 Eighth Ave. following a fatal shooting nearby.
Police beefed up presence at McDonalds' at 490 Eighth Ave. following a fatal shooting nearby.
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MANHATTAN — The shooting outside Penn Station on Monday that left one man dead and two men wounded was sparked by two Oxycodone users with dreams of being drug kingpins, sources said.

Francisco Alsina, 23, and Vincent Arcona, 27, both from Long Island, told police that they launched their power grab by approaching Angel Quinones, 43, William Lamboy, 45, and Ed Torres, 48, Monday morning around 6:30 in the fast food franchise at 490 Eighth Ave. and telling them they were taking over their territory, sources said.

The three men brushed off the proposal, believing the men not to be threats, and walked out of the restaurant, according to the NYPD.

Alsina and Arcona followed the trio to the the nearby A C E subway station, where Alsina, who had only one arrest in his past and a gun in his pocket, opened fire, police said, fatally striking Quinones in the neck, hitting Lamboy in the stomach and Torres in the leg.

Alsina and Arcona both fled in a silver Mercedes driven by an as yet unidentified man, authorities said.

Arcona was arrested in a Bronx-Lebanon Hospital trying to score Oxycodone under a fake name and claiming he was having psychiatric problems, sources said.

Alsina's relatives in Medford, L.I., told police that he was close to a cousin in Cranston, Rhode Island, and using a signal from a cell phone that the fugitive recently obtained, they tracked him to the address, according to sources.

Just as the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force approached the home to arrest Alsina, the cousin's aunt and grandmother drove into the driveway, hoping to convince the suspect to turn himself in, sources said.

The federal Marshals waylaid the woman and went into the home and arrested Alsina, finding a gun that they have yet to determine was used in the shooting. During a initial interview, he told authorities he shot the men in self-defense, according to sources.

He is currently in the custody of the Rhode Island State Police awaiting extradition to New York.

Alsina is expected to be arraigned Friday afternoon in Rhode Island on charges of gun possession and fleeing police, record showed.

A public relations company for Linda Dunham, the franchise owner, did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

Additional reporting by Anton K. Nilsson.