Crime & Safety
Philadelphia Man Charged With Murder After Harlem Shooting: NYPD
The arrest happened one month after Alonza Georgia was shot in the chest and killed inside of the Saint Nicholas Houses near 131st Street.
HARLEM, NY — A month after a Harlem man was shot and killed inside of a neighborhood NYCHA complex, a Philadelphia resident has been arrested and charged with murder, police said.
Zaire Allen, 19, was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder, robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
The arrest stems from a shooting on March 26, when police found Harlem resident Alonza Georgia, 24, with a gun shot wound to his chest inside of a building near West 131st Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, police said.
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He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
It is unclear if Allen and Georgia knew each other.
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"My son should definitely still be here," Elaine Francis, Georgia's mother, told the New York Daily News. "I want a conviction. I want justice for my son."
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