Crime & Safety
Gunman Who Shot Up UES Building Arrested: NYPD
Farris Koroma shot at the luxury high-rise on two nights last week, police said Friday.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The man wanted for shooting an Upper East Side high-rise from Roosevelt Island has turned himself into police, authorities said Friday.
Farris Koroma, 22, was arrested and charged with gun possession, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief after he confessed to authorities, a police spokesman said.
Koroma, who lives on Roosevelt Island, is suspected of firing a gun from 20 River Road at One East River Place on Aug. 18 at 1 a.m. Shots were also fired the night before, police said. The bullets smashed apartment windows 1,400 feet west at the 50-story luxury tower between East 72nd and East 73rd streets.
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No one was injured in the shootings.
The NYPD released video Wednesday night of two people walking on River Road on Roosevelt Island, near where police say the gunman fired. Authorities believe Koroma is pictured in the footage, a police spokesman said.
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Police expect Koroma to be arraigned in Manhattan criminal court Friday.
(Photo courtesy of NYPD)
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