A New York man wanted for a 2019 slaying outside a restaurant was arrested Thursday after a 14-month manhunt, authorities said. Jamaad Murphy, 27, was taken into custody after New York State Police and the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force tracked him down to a Ramapo, N.Y. home, said police. Murphy, a resident of Middletown, N.Y., was on the run after fatally shooting 23-year-old .
Cops, FBI catch NY murder suspect after 14-month manhunt
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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Jamaad Mikal Murphy (Via New York State Police/FBI)
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. - The police and federal agents have captured an upstate New York man who was wanted for a 2019 murder in Orange County, officials said.
State troopers and agents with the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force arrested Jamaad Mikal Murphy, 27, at a home in Ramapo in Rockland County this week, New York State Police announced on Thursday. They brought Murphy to the Orange County jail, where he was remanded without bail.
Murphy, of Middletown, got into a fight with Matthew Napoleoni, 23, inside Made in Puerto Rico Latin Cuisine and Sports Bar in Wallkill on Nov. 3, 2019, police said. The brawl spilled into the parking lot, where Murphy shot and killed Napoleoni and then took off, police said.
After an intensive 14-month manhunt, a 27-year-old man has been arrested by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force for the 2019 murder of another man at a restaurant in the area.Jamaad Mikal Murphy, of Middletown, was arrested on Wednesday, Jan.