Harlem Man Arrested After 2 Daytime Shootings Weeks Apart, Police Say

HARLEM, NY — A young man from Harlem was arrested Friday in connection with two different broad-daylight shootings that rattled the neighborhood in recent weeks, police said.

Alex Guzman, 20, is accused of playing a role in the Sept. 21 shooting on a quiet West Harlem block that injured a 60-year-old man, as well as the Oct. 4 shooting on Lenox Avenue near 125th Street that wounded two men, police say.

Guzman, a resident of the NYCHA Manhattanville Houses, was arrested alongside 20-year-old Adam Karamoko for the September shooting, and 19-year-old Shaquan Moore for the October incident, police said.

The first shooting unfolded around 6:30 p.m. on West 136th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam avenues, where a 60-year-old man told police he heard gunshots, felt pain, and found he had been shot in the right leg, police said.

The man was taken to Mount Sinai-Saint Luke's Hospital in stable condition, police said. Authorities did not say whether he was the intended target, but named Guzman as a person of interest weeks later.

The Oct. 4 shooting happened around 7 a.m. just north of West 125th Street, in front of a deli and just two doors down from Red Rooster restaurant. Two men, ages 60 and 21, were shot in the neck and chest, respectively — the elder man being a retired NYPD detective, according to multiple reports.

Guzman faces charges of attempted murder, attempted assault and criminal weapon possession for the Lenox Avenue shooting, and criminally negligent homicide, assault, criminal use of a firearm and reckless endangerment in connection with the West Harlem shooting, police said.

Karamoko's charges include attempted murder and assault, while Moore was charged with attempted murder and weapon possession, police said.

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