Harlem Man Arrested 7 Years After Killing Teenager, Police Say

EAST HARLEM, NY — Seven years after a Queens teenager was gunned down on an East Harlem street, police have arrested a neighborhood man in connection with the murder, authorities said Wednesday.

Tyrell Lewis, now 25, is accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Anthony Fries on June 6, 2015 in a parking lot outside the NYCHA East River Houses, police said.

Fries, of Briarwood, Queens, was one of three people shot around 4:30 a.m. that day in the parking lot on East 105th Street near the FDR Drive. The other victims, a 30-year-old man and a 36-year-old man, both survived, authorities say.

But Fries, who had been shot in the abdomen, was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Lewis, the suspect, lives in East Harlem a short walk from the site of the shooting, police said.

One day after the 2015 killing, police circulated video footage showing two people wanted for questioning. It was unclear whether any other suspects remain outstanding.