BROOKLYN — A Pennsylvania man was arrested for murder this week more than a year after gunning down another man in Flatbush, NYPD officials said.
Manuel Waisome, 24, shot Darnell Nelson, 27, in the chest near East 18th Street and Caton Avenue about 11:21 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2015, police said.
Nelson, who lived nearby on East 17th Street, was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, police said.
A witness told NYPD investigators that Waisome had pulled the trigger, but he wasn't charged until this week, 15 days after officers in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, picked him up for selling heroin to undercover officers, officials said.
He initially told Hazelton investigators that his name was Jason Williams in a bid to hide his real identity, but they eventually realized he was indeed Waisome and had an open warrant for the 2015 homicide, officials said.
They notified the NYPD and Nelson was brought to New York to face charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
He was arraigned Thursday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.
He's being held on Rikers Island and due back in court on April 14, jail records show.