2nd Suspect Arrested Months After Man's Harlem Murder, Police Say

HARLEM, NY — Months after a man was gunned down in a parked car in East Harlem, police have arrested a second suspect: reportedly the person accused of pulling the trigger.

Mario Jones, 31, was arrested Friday and charged with murder in connection with the February killing of Charles Buckner, police said. Jones was charged with murder, attempted murder, assault and four counts of criminal gun possession, police said.

Jones's arrest comes less than a month after police had arrested 30-year-old Tynika Johnson in connection with the same murder, though police told the Daily News that Johnson was not believed to have personally shot Buckner.

Buckner was sitting inside a car parked near the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 138th Street on Feb. 27 when someone shot him in the head around, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 24-year-old man who was also in the car — Buckner's cousin, according to the Daily News — was shot in the arm and took himself to Harlem Hospital.

Jones, a resident of the NYCHA Frederick Douglass Houses on the Upper West Side, is believed to have been the triggerman, the Daily News reported.

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